subprime mortgage crisis
description: 2007 mortgage crisis in the United States
136 results
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
1 percent in 2005.4 A chunk of these loans, effectively coming from Asia but intermediated by the U.S. financial system, contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis. Unfortunately, although Greenspan and his staff thought enough of the correlation to make it a recurrent theme in his speeches, that insight did not translate
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interest rates were a major factor driving capital flows into the United States, pouring fuel on the deregulation-induced fire that produced the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis that eventually morphed into the global financial crisis.24 Unfortunately, U.S. policymakers, and many academics, insisted that massive U.S. borrowing from abroad was
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
), 40 Strokes, the, 17–18, 28, 40, 78, 108 “Stronger” (song), 35 Stüssy, 30–31, 130 Stussy, Shawn, 30 Style Rookie, 129 Styles, Harry, 177 subprime mortgage crisis, 69 SugarApe, 25 Sundaresan, Vignesh, 234–35 Sunday Service, 259 Suno, 227–28 Sunstein, Cass R., 84 Sun Yitian, 252 Super Bowl, 46, 185, 241
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
Surviving Subprime A L L I S O N K I L K E N N Y March 17, 2008 When i heard about the subprime mortgage crisis,it sounded eerily similar to the shady credit card lending practices found on most college campuses. I imagined yet another financial bubble floating down from
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banker, should have the right to trick citizens into a scheme like predatory lending. Thirty days’ notice isn’t fair. In the case of the subprime mortgage crisis, the government must stop protecting the banks and Wall Street and start protecting American citizens. Is This the Big One? J E F F FA
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to endless tax cuts. The experience of the past decade makes clear the need for a sharply new way of thinking about the economy. The subprime mortgage crisis, although dangerous, is not the issue. It’s not even the rising prospect of recession and lost jobs. The real problem is that even when
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to record levels of debt, compared with income; dependence on a high dollar to attract foreign capital (thereby undermining manufacturing at home); and the current subprime mortgage crisis. And families can’t work many more hours than they do now. Policy-makers need a better way to think about the economy, and there
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
understand if we are to put the system back together again, and on more solid foundations this time. This financial crisis is not merely a subprime mortgage crisis or even a shadow-banking crisis; it is a crisis of the entire market-based credit system that we have constructed since 1970.’40 From
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much force to the argument of their fellow Republican nominee, Mr Wallison, who argues as if this were solely a US crisis and solely a subprime mortgage crisis. Second, the view that the GSEs played a central role in encouraging the private sector to enter into the subprime housing mania is false. Nobody
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words
exchange-traded instruments—rather boring but normally easily tradable stocks. We knew that many large financial institutions were being hit with losses related to the subprime mortgage crisis, but those losses were mainly in bonds and other credit-related instruments. What did they have to do with statarb? To answer this question, Amir
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
Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio · 9 Sep 2018 · 782pp · 187,875 words
.” –New York Times August 31, 2007 Bush Offers Relief for Some on Home Loans “President Bush, in his first response to families hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, announced several steps today to help Americans who have credit problems meet the rising cost of their housing loans. In remarks this morning at the
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips · 31 Mar 2008 · 422pp · 113,830 words
write-downs with respect to credit default swaps (and related synthetic CDOs) comparable to the $700 billion they were taking for instruments connected to the subprime mortgage crisis. While that future amount was conjectural, insiders knew that amid autumn’s maelstrom, the credit swap counter-party nexus surrounding AIG was a driving force
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
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
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Principles of Corporate Finance
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The Making of Global Capitalism
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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Warnings
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by Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch · 22 Nov 2016
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