Financial shock global panic and government bailouts--how we got here and what must be done to fix it
Examines the underlying causes of the current mortgage crisis, from irresponsible lenders and predatory speculators to home "flippers" and less-than-truthful borrowers, and provides advice for reforms and regulations which could prevent a recurrence in the future
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.
FT Press
2009
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Edition: | Updated ed |
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Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Subprime précis
- Sizing up subprime
- Everyone should own a home
- Chairman Greenspan counts on housing
- Global money men want a piece
- Bad lenders drive out the good
- Financial engineers and their creations
- Home buildings run aground
- As the regulatory cycle turns
- Boom, bubble, bust, and crash
- Credit crunch
- Timid policymakers turn bold
- Economic fallout
- Back to the future
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index