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Government policies created the issue to begin with. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 that was caused primarily by Clinton's and Barney Franks' housing and lending policies.
I remember having a conversation with what I used to think was a pretty intelligent guy. He was talking about how great negative amortizing home loans were. I countered this was a recipe for disaster for numerous reasons, which is exactly what happened.
The result - the government bailed at the (ir)responsible parties out on the backs of the taxpayers...
mitsloan.mit.edu
"As for who directly benefitted, Lucas found that the main winners were the large, unsecured creditors of large financial institutions. While their exact identities have not been made public, most are likely to have been large institutional investors such as banks, pension and mutual funds, insurance companies, and sovereigns."