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The great American housing bubble : what went wrong and how we can protect ourselves in the future /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Levitin, Adam Jeremiah (Author), Wachter, Susan M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Freddie Mac (Firm)
Federal National Mortgage Association.
Mortgage loans > United States > History.
Housing > United States > Finance > History.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In praise of homeownership
  • Housing finance before the New Deal
  • The New Deal mortgage
  • The rise of securitization
  • The boom and the bubble
  • The bubble bursts
  • Timing the bubble
  • Demand or supply?
  • Theories of the bubble
  • The securitization daisy chain
  • Information failure
  • Post-crisis reforms and developments
  • Principles for reform
  • Meet Franny Meg.