| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; 1 Prologue; Part I: The Subprime Market Takes Off; Part II: Contagion; Part III: Regulatory Failure; Part IV: Solutions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy tell the full story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. The Subprime Virus reveals how consumer abuses in a once obscure corner of the home mortgage market led to the near meltdown of the world's financial system. Wall Street peddled subprime loans to investors through complex but dodgy financial instruments that |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-341) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Subprime mortgage loans -- United States
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Financial crises -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- Mortgages.
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Financial crises
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Subprime mortgage loans
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCoy, Patricia A., 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780199781416 |
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0199781419 |
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9786612945090 |
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6612945095 |
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