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The Great American Housing Bubble - The Road to Collapse (Hardcover)
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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. In the
aftermath of the American housing collapse in 2007, many ask why.
The Great American Housing Bubble: The Road to Collapse asks a
different and more fundamental question-how the bubble was created
in the first place. To answer that question, it examines the
causes, both political and economic, of the American housing
bubble, created between 1940 and 2007. Those causes encompass
everything from federal income tax subsidies for housing to local
exclusionary policies, banking, accounting, real estate appraisal,
and credit agency rating practices and policies. The book also
takes into account the impact of greed, government regulation,
speculation, and psychology-including blind faith in investment
advisors-on the creation of the greatest asset bubble in the
economic history of the world. The author takes a comparative
historical approach, examining the current crisis in the light of
notorious bubbles of the past. In the end, he concludes that the
events precipitating the most recent collapse can be traced, at
least in part, not to too little government regulation, but to too
much. Extracts from major legislation-federal, state, and
local-that promoted the creation of the housing bubble An
introductory essay illuminating the broad features of Western
capitalism and the financial and government institutions that have
evolved to promote and regulate it, notably in the United States A
detailed chronology orienting readers to the sequence and context
of events A glossary of important financial and regulatory terms
and terms used by those in the housing industry An appendix of
governmental agencies and private institutions and think tanks
involved in various aspects of the financial crisis A bibliography
listing hundreds of sources, from articles and periodicals to books
and treatises
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