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Translated from Spanish, and originally published under Vidas Hipotecadas. About the organizing strategies of the PAH, Plataforma De Afectados Por La Hipoteca.
Author : Ada Colau
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780979137778
Translated from Spanish, and originally published under Vidas Hipotecadas. About the organizing strategies of the PAH, Plataforma De Afectados Por La Hipoteca.
Author : Edmund L. Andrews
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393071286
The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better. A veteran New York Times economics reporter, Ed Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages from fast-buck lenders. Yet, at the promise of a second chance at love, he succumbed to the temptation of subprime lending and became part of the economic catastrophe he was covering. In surprisingly short order, he amassed a staggering amount of debt and reached the edge of bankruptcy. In Busted, Andrew bluntly recounts his misadventures in mortgages and goes one step further to describe the brokers, lenders, Wall Street players, and Washington policymakers who helped bring that money to his door. The result is a penetrating and often acerbic look at the binge and bust that nearly bankrupted the United States. Enabled by know-nothing complacency in Washington, Wall Street wizards used "collateralized debt obligations," "conduits," and other inscrutable financial "innovations" to put American home financing into hyperdrive. Millions of Americans abandoned the safety of thirty-year, fixed-rate mortgages and loaded up on debt. While regulators insisted that the markets knew best, Wall Street firms fragmented and repackaged unsound loans into securities that the rating agencies stamped with triple-A seals of approval. Andrews describes a remarkably democratic debacle that made fools out of people up and down the financial food chain. From a confessional meeting with Alan Greenspan to a trek through the McMansion bubble of the OC, he maps the arc of the Frankenstein loans that brought the American economy to the brink. With on-the-ground reporting from the frothiest quarters of the crisis, Andrews locates what is likely to be the high-water mark in America's long-term embrace of higher borrowing, higher risk-taking, and the fervent belief in the possibility of easy profits.
Author : Combahee River Collective
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1986
Category : African American women
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Author : Parker Shipton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300152744
This title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa.
Author : William HUGHES (Barrister-at-Law)
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1849
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ISBN :
Author : Richard Holmes Coote
Publisher :
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Mortgages
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Author : Luci Cavallero
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Debt
ISBN : 9781786808479
Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0393322572
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
Author : Eugene N. White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022609328X
The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and spread of crises changed over time? How have previous policy interventions either damaged or improved long-run market performance and stability? This volume begins to answer these questions, providing a much-needed context for understanding recent events by examining how historical housing and mortgage markets worked—and how they sometimes failed. Renowned economic historians Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden, and Price Fishback survey the foundational research on housing crises, comparing that of the 1930s to that of the early 2000s in order to authoritatively identify what contributed to each crisis. Later chapters explore notable historical experiences with mortgage securitization and the role that federal policy played in the surge in home ownership between 1940 and 1960. By providing a broad historical overview of housing and mortgage markets, the volume offers valuable new insights to inform future policy debates.
Author : William Richard Fisher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385525810
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.