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The great American housing bubble : the road to collapse /

"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardaway, Robert M., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview : an allegory
  • Blind faith
  • Greed
  • Regulation
  • Local exclusionary practices
  • Bubbles of the past
  • Speculation
  • Psychology
  • Bankruptcy laws
  • Banking practices and redlinin
  • The Federal Reserve
  • Tax policy
  • Real estate practices
  • Credit rating agencies
  • Appraisers
  • Accounting
  • Fallout : the litigation mess
  • Conclusions
  • Glossary.