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The subprime virus : reckless credit, regulatory failure, and next steps / Kathleen C. Engel, Patricia A. McCoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Kathleen C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subprime mortgage loans--United States.
- Subprime mortgage loans.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy tell the full story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. The Subprime Virus reveals how consumer abuses in a once obscure corner of the home mortgage market led to the near meltdown of the world's financial system. Wall Street peddled subprime loans to investors through complex but dodgy financial instruments that
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Prologue; Part I: The Subprime Market Takes Off; Part II: Contagion; Part III: Regulatory Failure; Part IV: Solutions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-978009-9
- 0-19-025853-5
- 1-282-94509-2
- 9786612945090
- 0-19-978141-9
- OCLC:
- 695028682
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