subprime mortgage crisis
description: 2007 mortgage crisis in the United States
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Global Financial Crisis
by Noah Berlatsky · 19 Feb 2010
the United States. This is directly related to the joblessness and economic distress caused by the financial crisis. 74 2. Canada Will Not Suffer a Subprime Mortgage Crisis Jonathan Kay 80 Canada had fewer bad mortgages and better lending standards than the United States. As a result, it did not have a housing
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be more of the new poor pitching their tents in shantytowns across America—maybe in your neighborhood. 79 2 Viewpoint Canada Will Not Suffer a Subprime Mortgage Crisis Jonathan Kay Jonathan Kay is a writer for Canada’s National Post and has also written for Harper’s, the New York Times, and other
No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans
by Michael S. Barr · 20 Mar 2012
_CH11_3rdPgs.indd 265 3/23/12 11:57 AM 266 michael s. barr, sendhil mullainathan, and eldar shafir being honest! Moreover, evidence from the subprime-mortgage crisis suggests that while in theory creditors and investors have some incentives to monitor brokers, they do not do so effectively. It is possible to undertake
Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
by Greg Ip · 12 Oct 2015 · 309pp · 95,495 words
. But while the outbreak was under way, the FDA, not knowing its origin, cast a wide net. The spinach recall was to food what the subprime mortgage crisis was to finance: a watershed event that prompted wholesale regulatory changes. There had been proposals stalled in Congress for years to require growers and processors
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on an interview with Nancy Wallace and the paper she co-wrote with Richard Stanton, “The Bear’s Lair: Index Credit Default Swaps and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” Review of Financial Studies 24, no. 10 (2011): 3250–3280, available at http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stanton/papers/pdf/indices.pdf. 36 it later
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
: Clarendon Press, 1956. Purdey, C. ‘Housing equity: A market update’, CML Housing Finance, August, 1–11, 2011. Purnanandam, A. ‘Originate-to-distribute model and the subprime mortgage crisis’, Review of Financial Studies, 24, 1,881–915, 2011. Qian, J. ‘The 2015 stock panic of China: a narrative’, Shanghai Jiao Tong University mimeo, 2016
The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . And Are Ready to Do It Again
by Nicholas Dunbar · 11 Jul 2011 · 350pp · 103,270 words
. Over the years, industry lobbyists and consultants have produced reams of documents claiming benefits for securitization, but one of the few academic studies before the subprime mortgage crisis (Steven Todd, “The Effect of Securitization on Consumer Mortgage Costs,” Real Estate Economics 29, no. 1 [2001]) found no such evidence. 6. Greg Lippmann, interview
Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff
by Christine S. Richard · 26 Apr 2010 · 459pp · 118,959 words
MBIA’s first-quarter conference call. It was April 26, 2007, the company had put a more than two-year regulatory investigation behind it, the subprime mortgage crisis wasn’t going to touch the company, and the board had authorized a huge share buyback plan. “We continue to monitor the developments in the
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 words
the stage for World War II. Ignoring them is not an option. Creatures of Habit Early in 2007, when signs of a looming housing and subprime mortgage crisis in the United States appeared on the horizon, the initial reaction was disbelief and denial. In March, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke confidently told Congress
Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis
by David Boyle · 15 Jan 2014 · 367pp · 108,689 words
. So did Imperial College London. ‘They just didn’t get it,’ he says. It was now 2007, the first whiff of what would become the subprime mortgage crisis was wafting into the news, and this time the London School of Economics said yes. His centre is now based there, next to the huge
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
history.7 If US banks have lost significantly more than the $255 billion to which they have so far admitted as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis and credit crunch, there is a real danger that a much larger - perhaps tenfold larger - contraction in credit may be necessary to shrink the banks
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market was so awash with cash in 2006 that you could get a 100 per cent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict, as we have already seen. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused
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
do so. Unfortunately, the auction-rate municipal bond market practically stopped functioning as a result of the disruption in the capital market initiated by the subprime mortgage crisis. When the market quit functioning, many investors were not able to sell their bonds back into the market. Investments that they had thought were liquid
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips · 31 Mar 2008 · 422pp · 113,830 words
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar · 16 May 2016 · 515pp · 132,295 words
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
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
Principles of Corporate Finance
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The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
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A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression
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The End of Growth
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
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The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
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Market Sense and Nonsense
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby · 10 Oct 2016 · 1,242pp · 317,903 words
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely · 19 Feb 2007 · 383pp · 108,266 words
Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio · 9 Sep 2018 · 782pp · 187,875 words
Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation Is Reshaping Our WorldÑFor the Better
by Andrew Palmer · 13 Apr 2015 · 280pp · 79,029 words
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
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What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
by George R. Tyler · 15 Jul 2013 · 772pp · 203,182 words
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
by Dinny McMahon · 13 Mar 2018 · 290pp · 84,375 words
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
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EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale · 23 May 2011 · 397pp · 112,034 words
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 15 Mar 2015 · 409pp · 125,611 words
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis
by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 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
House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi · 11 May 2014 · 249pp · 66,383 words
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
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The Dealmaker: Lessons From a Life in Private Equity
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SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein · 18 May 2020 · 339pp · 95,270 words
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
Heads I Win, Tails I Win
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Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
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The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
Warnings
by Richard A. Clarke · 10 Apr 2017 · 428pp · 121,717 words
Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
by Meghnad Desai · 15 Feb 2015 · 270pp · 73,485 words
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
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How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
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Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments
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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
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Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
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The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World's Most Important Number (Bloomberg)
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Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
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Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
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Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions
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