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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

longer to mature as a currency system and been better able to handle its own crises—for example, the debt crisis in Greece or the housing crisis in Spain—when they eventually came. How is China’s current economic malaise connected? The world lavished praise on China’s stimulus policies in 2010

Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling

by Sam Freedman  · 10 Jul 2024  · 368pp  · 101,133 words

”: desperation and devastation in England’s housing courts’, The Observer, 16 December 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/16/legal-aid-cuts-britain-housing-crisis-county-court-tenants-homes-lawyers 45 Joint Committee on Human Rights, ‘The implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to reform legal

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

by Louisa Lim  · 19 Apr 2022

IN TEXT it rigged the process: Shirley Zhao, “Land Supply Consultation ‘Rigged,’ Ex-Hong Kong Planning Official Says of Public Exercise to Tackle City’s Housing Crisis,” South China Morning Post, September 22, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT a measly twenty days: Holmes Chan, “ ‘Jumping the Gun’: Barristers, Scholars and

Pattern.” EJ Insight, July 11, 2017. Zhao, Shirley. “Land Supply Consultation ‘Rigged,’ Ex–Hong Kong Planning Official Says of Public Exercise to Tackle City’s Housing Crisis.” South China Morning Post, September 22, 2018. About the Author Louisa Lim is the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, which

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble  · 2 Apr 2024  · 430pp  · 117,211 words

: The suburbs justified the highways, and the highways enabled the growth of the suburbs. After World War II, millions of veterans arrived home to a housing crisis—or rather, by arriving home, they created one. Because construction of all kinds had essentially halted during the Great Depression and ensuing world war, there

like Richardson and Plano, even as it displaced hundreds of Black families, dispersing them across a still-segregated city. By 1950, Black Dallasites faced a housing crisis. Over the previous decade, builders had constructed sixty thousand homes within city limits. Only one thousand were available for Black families. “There is no room

homes—line cooks earning minimum wage who drove home to San Marcos, public school teachers who lived in Round Rock—she learned about Austin’s housing crisis. Mostly, this crisis was created by the city’s outdated and exclusionary zoning code, which hadn’t been updated since 1984, when the city was

’t fix traffic, says Adam Greenfield—never has, never will. Widening a highway will make flooding worse. Widening a highway will destroy housing during a housing crisis. Widening a highway will increase greenhouse gas emissions during a climate crisis. Texans want trains, the speakers say. They want frequent buses and safe bike

, 279 greenhouse gas emissions and induced travel from I-35, 255 greenhouse gas emissions from average driver, 13 highways stopped by public protest in, 262 housing crisis, 143, 144, 145–46 housing for senior citizens in, xiv (map), 223–24 need for low-income housing, 77–78 “Negro district” established, 17, 218

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

by Paul Kingsnorth  · 23 Sep 2025  · 388pp  · 110,920 words

://www.iea.org/reports/empowering-urban-energy-transitions/executive-summary. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 Nita Bhalla, ‘World’s Slum Populations Set to Surge as Housing Crisis Bites’, Reuters, 8 June 2023. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5 Texas A&M University, ‘Swath of Natural Habitat Larger Than the UK Will Be Urbanized

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu  · 4 Nov 2025  · 246pp  · 65,143 words

of their own human capital back to being a laboring class, members of the proletariat. Housing The year 2010 marked the depth of the American housing crisis. In that single year, a record 2.8 million foreclosures were filed, out of what would be a total of nearly 5.7 million homes

than $21 million in homes per day, mainly in Arizona, Las Vegas, and Florida, parts of the country that had been hit worst by the housing crisis. That first $10 billion was just a start. Over the next four years, while others got into the act, Invitation Homes’ surge became a buying

, distressed, or otherwise.[19] As John Christie, an executive at a clone of Invitation Homes, put it, “We recognized the unique opportunity created by the housing crisis and acted upon it in a bold way.”[20] By 2016, 95 percent of the distressed mortgages on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s books

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

by Alan S. Blinder  · 24 Jan 2013  · 566pp  · 155,428 words

a megarecession coupled with sharp declines in home prices. That was during the Great Depression. Back then, President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress reacted to the housing crisis with a burst of policy activism that put the governments of 2007–2010 to shame. The New Deal housing programs included establishing the FHA to

Chuck Schumer (D-NY) advocated something similar. By coincidence, a few days later I attended a meeting of House Democratic leaders where the then-budding housing crisis was on the agenda. My HOLC idea came up in passing—but, believe me, only in passing. It was rejected instantly as being wildly too

to accomplish the original stated purposes of the TARP: buying troubled assets. The fourth was, in Geithner’s words, “a comprehensive plan to address the housing crisis.” Unfortunately, he also added, “We will announce the details of this plan in the next few weeks,” which led all hell to break loose in

, 397 National Economic Council (NEC), 214, 216 Negative amortization loans, 71 Negative net worth, 103–4 New Century Financial Corporation, 69 New Deal reforms for housing crisis, 324–25 regulatory agencies created, 265–66, 288 New jobs tax credit (NJTC), 229–30 News, and efficient markets hypothesis, 64–65, 103 Newton, Isaac

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 14 Sep 2017  · 520pp  · 153,517 words

America in a 1970 statement, “except for FNMA, there is almost no money available for residential housing. We are in a real honest-to-goodness housing crisis!"105 Thanks to Fannie Mae’s creation of the MBS, capital from around the world began pouring into American mortgage markets, and capital became plentiful

going to file lawsuits against you lenders if you don’t make risky loans."62 Two of President Trump’s economic advisers explained that the housing crisis was actually caused by the CRA and Bill Clinton, who pushed banks to lend unjustifiably into “credit-deprived areas."63 A Fox News commentators remarked

: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.); Mike Konczal, “No, Marco Rubio, Government Did Not Cause the Housing Crisis," Washington Post, February 13, 2013: Elizabeth Laderman and Carolina Reid, “CRA Lending during the Subprime Meltdown," Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, February 2009, 115

_during_subprime_m eltdown.pdf. 62. Kenneth J. Cooper, “Loans to Minorities Did Not Cause Housing Crisis, Study Finds," New America Media, February 9, 2011, http://newamericamedia.org /2011/02/loans-to-minorities-did-not-cause-housing-crisis-study-finds.php. 63. Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore, “Are the Clintons the Real Housing Crash

Villains?," CNBC, May 28, 2016. 64. Cooper, “Loans to Minorities Did Not Cause Housing Crisis." 65. Christopher S. Parker and Matt A. Barreto, Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton

-that-community-reinvestment-act-is-not-to-blame-for-fo reclosure-crisis; David Min, “Why Wallison Is Wrong about the Genesis of the U.S. Housing Crisis," Center for American Progress, July 12, 2011, https://www.americanprogress.org / issues/economy/reports/2011/07/12/10011/why-wallison-is-wrong-about -the-genesis

-of-the-u-s-housing-crisis/; Ben Bernanke, The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015). 67. Neil Bhutta and Glenn

were more likely to carry prepayment penalties than subprime loans in majority communities." Bocian et al., “Foreclosures by Race and Ethnicity," 6. 78. Tami Luhby, “Housing Crisis Hits Blacks Hardest," CNN, October 19, 2010. 79. Eric S. Belsky and Nela Richardson, “Understanding the Boom and Bust in Nonprime Mortgage Lending," Joint Center

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

. Mark Thoma, “Low-Income Loans Didn’t Cause the Financial Crisis,” CBS News, January 21, 2015. 41. Mark Thoma, “Here’s What Really Caused the Housing Crisis,” CBS News, January 10, 2017. 42. Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton (New York: Vintage, 2015), 281. 43. Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber, Fragile

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

through ecological forestry. That would allow the forest to give us environmental benefits and produce wood products at the same time. We have an affordable housing crisis in this country. We don’t have enough housing. We need to build both multi-family houses and single-family houses—especially smaller ones, for

power. The economic system of this nation is the root cause of both the climate crisis and the enslavement of African people, of both the housing crisis and the incarceration of Brown people. It is all profit-driven. All of it. None of this is rooted in humanity. And we need to

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider  · 9 Jan 2009  · 278pp  · 82,069 words

Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin  · 15 Oct 2009  · 351pp  · 102,379 words

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

by Henry M. Paulson  · 15 Sep 2010  · 468pp  · 145,998 words

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane  · 28 Feb 2017  · 346pp  · 90,371 words

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo  · 3 Apr 2017  · 733pp  · 179,391 words

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze  · 31 Jul 2018  · 1,066pp  · 273,703 words

Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity

by Eric C. Anderson  · 15 Jan 2009  · 264pp  · 115,489 words

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

by Gillian Tett  · 11 May 2009  · 311pp  · 99,699 words

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole  · 1 May 2019  · 505pp  · 133,661 words

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

by Raghuram Rajan  · 26 Feb 2019  · 596pp  · 163,682 words

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen  · 30 Sep 2019

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope

by John A. Allison  · 20 Sep 2012  · 348pp  · 99,383 words

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster  · 3 May 2021  · 245pp  · 75,397 words

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller  · 1 Jan 2009  · 471pp  · 97,152 words

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

Home: Why Public Housing Is the Answer

by Eoin Ó Broin  · 5 May 2019  · 301pp  · 77,626 words

Big Capital: Who Is London For?

by Anna Minton  · 31 May 2017  · 169pp  · 52,744 words

This Land: The Struggle for the Left

by Owen Jones  · 23 Sep 2020  · 387pp  · 123,237 words

Unfinished Business

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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 15 Mar 2015  · 409pp  · 125,611 words

I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

by John Lanchester  · 14 Dec 2009  · 322pp  · 77,341 words

The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay

by Guy Standing  · 13 Jul 2016  · 443pp  · 98,113 words

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

by Rana Foroohar  · 16 May 2016  · 515pp  · 132,295 words

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

by Duff McDonald  · 5 Oct 2009  · 419pp  · 130,627 words

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

Big Debt Crises

by Ray Dalio  · 9 Sep 2018  · 782pp  · 187,875 words

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner  · 11 May 2014  · 593pp  · 189,857 words

Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

by Bernadette Hanlon  · 18 Dec 2009

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 5 Oct 2015  · 424pp  · 121,425 words

The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future

by Joseph C. Sternberg  · 13 May 2019  · 336pp  · 95,773 words

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire

by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson  · 15 Jan 2019  · 502pp  · 128,126 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm  · 10 May 2010  · 491pp  · 131,769 words

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

by Andrew Ross  · 25 Oct 2021  · 301pp  · 90,276 words

Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis

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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

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Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

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Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

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Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency

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In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

by David Wessel  · 3 Aug 2009  · 350pp  · 109,220 words

The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

by Robert Scheer  · 14 Apr 2010  · 257pp  · 64,763 words

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver  · 31 Aug 2012  · 829pp  · 186,976 words

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification

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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

by Brink Lindsey  · 12 Oct 2017  · 288pp  · 64,771 words

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis

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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream

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The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

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The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain

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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

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The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets

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by Richard V. Reeves  · 22 May 2017  · 198pp  · 52,089 words

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by Charles Goyette  · 29 Oct 2009  · 287pp  · 81,970 words

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by David Boyle  · 15 Jan 2014  · 367pp  · 108,689 words

Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America

by Diana Elizabeth Kendall  · 27 Jul 2005  · 311pp  · 130,761 words

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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

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by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

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by Frank Pasquale  · 17 Nov 2014  · 320pp  · 87,853 words

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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

by Owen Jones  · 14 Jul 2011  · 317pp  · 101,475 words

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by Gene Sperling  · 14 Sep 2020  · 667pp  · 149,811 words

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by Yascha Mounk  · 15 Feb 2018  · 497pp  · 123,778 words

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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer  · 19 Jan 2016  · 558pp  · 168,179 words

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

by M. Nolan Gray  · 20 Jun 2022  · 252pp  · 66,183 words

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

by Michal Zalewski  · 11 Jan 2022  · 337pp  · 96,666 words

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by Jeremiah Moss  · 19 May 2017  · 479pp  · 140,421 words

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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman  · 17 Jul 2023  · 329pp  · 99,504 words

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by Rodrigo Aguilera  · 10 Mar 2020  · 356pp  · 106,161 words

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The End of Growth

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

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Automating Inequality

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Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

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Firefighting

by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson, Jr.  · 16 Apr 2019

House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again

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Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

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