The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition - Couverture souple

Sowell, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0465019862 ISBN 13 : 9780465019861

Editeur : Basic Books, 2010

Synopsis

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more "creative" marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up -- and then suddenly collapsed.

The politics behind all this is another story full of strange twists. No punches are pulled when discussing politicians of either party, the financial dangers they created, or the distractions they created later to escape their own responsibility for what happened when the financial house of cards in the financial markets collapsed.

What to do, now that we are in the midst of an economic disaster, is yet another story -- one whose ending we do not yet know, but one whose outlines and implications are explored to reveal some surprising and sobering lessons.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of dozens of books including Charter Schools and Their Enemies, winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the National Humanities Medal, presented by the President of the United States in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465019862
• ISBN 13: 9780465019861
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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