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The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future Adam J. Levitin
The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future
Adam J. Levitin
Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter argue that the housing bubble of the 2000s was caused by private-label securitization. Competition among Wall Street banks set off a race to the bottom in mortgage underwriting that inflated home prices but yielded huge profits before the bubble burst. To avoid déjà vu, w¬e need carefully regulated securitization.
400 pages, 64 illus., 5 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 1, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674979659 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 167 × 41 mm · 770 g |