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Understanding mortgage meltdowns / Arlene V. Carey, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mortgage loans--Government policy--United States.
- Mortgage loans.
- Mortgage loans--United States.
- Subprime mortgage loans--Government policy--United States.
- Subprime mortgage loans.
- Subprime mortgage loans--United States.
- Foreclosure--United States.
- Foreclosure.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
- United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text explains why mortgage providers and rates behave the way they do. In particular it focuses on the popularity of, and problems with, alternative mortgages, which are now experiencing a rising foreclosure rate.
- Contents:
- Examining the causes of the credit crisis of 2008, minority staff analysis, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform / Tom Davis
- Alternative mortgages : causes and policy implications of troubled mortgage resets in the subprime and Alt-A markets / Edward V. Murphy
- Economic analysis of a mortgage foreclosure moratorium / Edward Vincent Murphy
- Understanding mortgage foreclosure : recent events, the process, and costs / Darryl E. Getter
- Constitutional issues relating to proposals for legislation to impose an interest rate freeze/reduction on existing mortgages / David H. Carpenter
- Subprime mortgages : primer on current lending and foreclosure issues / Edward Vincent Murphy
- Government interventions in financial markets : economic and historic analysis of subprime mortgage options / N. Eric Weiss
- Proposal to allow Treasury to buy mortgage-related assets to address financial instability / Edward V. Murphy and Baird Webel.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61209-434-1
- OCLC:
- 694772610
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