TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sowell,Thomas
TI  - The housing boom and bust
SN  - 0465018807
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - United States
KW  - Housing
KW  - Prices
KW  - Secondary mortgage market
KW  - Subprime mortgage loans
N1  - Includes bibilographical references (p. 151-179) and index
N2  - Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed
ER  -