The housing boom and bust

Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the st...

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Main Author: Sowell, Thomas, 1930-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
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520 |a Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed. 
650 0 |a Housing  |x Prices 
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650 0 |a Subprime mortgage loans  |z United States  |x History  |y 21st century. 
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