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The housing boom and bust / Thomas Sowell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Basic Books, c2009.Description: vii, 184 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780465018802
  • 0465018807
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.720973 22
LOC classification:
  • HG 2040.25 S731h 2009
Online resources: Summary: Explains 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 "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HG 2040.25 S731h 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000130418

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-179) and index.

Explains 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 "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.

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