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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789862603321

Autore

Hardaway Robert M. <1946->

Titolo

The great American housing bubble [[electronic resource] ] : the road to collapse / / Robert M. Hardaway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2011

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-65891-4

1-283-05307-1

9786613053077

0-313-38229-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

332.7/20973

Soggetti

Financial crises - United States

Housing - Prices - Economic aspects - United States

Housing - United States - Finance

Subprime mortgage loans - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Overview : an allegory -- Blind faith -- Greed -- Regulation -- Local exclusionary practices -- Bubbles of the past -- Economic education -- Speculation -- Psychology -- Bankruptcy laws -- Banking practices and redlining -- The Federal Reserve -- Tax policy -- Real estate practices -- Credit rating agencies -- Appraisers -- Accounting -- Fallout : the litigation mess -- Conclusions -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

This meticulously documented work sets forth the major causes of the greatest asset bubble in world economic history-the American housing bubble, which began in 1940 and collapsed in 2007.