Bibliograph

Other people's houses, how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business, Jennifer Taub

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Label

Other people's houses, how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business, Jennifer Taub

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Other people's houses

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

862098427

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Taub

Sub title

how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business

Summary

Explores the origins of the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and draws parallels with the financial crisis of 2008, arguing that the failure to regulate banks combined with the laxness of regulators contributed to the crises and are problems that still persist today

Table Of Contents

Highfliers. The nobelmans ; The condo king and his empire ; The run on American Savings and Loan ; The Saturday night massacre ; Deregulation inauguration ; The red baron of finance ; The bailout ; Friends of the court -- Repeat performance. Friend of the family ; The factory line ; The bubble ; First to fall ; Surf and turf ; Legal enablers of the toxic chain ; The great betrayal -- Myth confronts reality. Dispelling myths about the crisis

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