Zandi, Mark M.,   1959- <br/><br/>
Financial shock :  global panic and government bailouts : how we got here and what must be done to fix it / 
Mark Zandi. 
 - Updated ed. 
 - Upper Saddle River, NJ :  Pearson Education,  c2009. 
 - 293 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Subprime précis -- Sizing up subprime -- Everyone should own a home -- Chairman Greenspan counts on housing -- Global money men want a piece -- Bad lenders drive out the good -- Financial engineers and their creations -- Home builders run aground -- As the regulatory cycle turns -- Boom, bubble, bust, and crash -- Credit crunch -- Timid policymakers turn bold --  Economic fallout -- Back to the future. 
<br/><br/> Examines the underlying causes of the current mortgage crisis, from irresponsible lenders and predatory speculators to home "flippers" and less-than-truthful borrowers, and provides advice for reforms and regulations which could prevent a recurrence in the future 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0137016638 9780137016631 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Subprime mortgage loans--United States.<br/>Housing--Finance.--United States<br/>Bailouts (Government policy)<br/>Préstamos hipotecarios subprime --Estados Unidos<br/>Financiación de vivienda --Estados Unidos<br/>Vivienda--Financiación --Estados Unidos
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG 2040.5  / Z27fi 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.7/220973