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The housing boom and bust / Thomas Sowell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sowell, Thomas, 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing--Prices--United States.
- Housing.
- Secondary mortgage market--United States.
- Secondary mortgage market.
- Subprime mortgage loans--United States.
- Subprime mortgage loans.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; SOURCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612462047
- 1-282-46204-0
- 0-7867-4755-2
- OCLC:
- 690212135
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