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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9781433294075
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1433294079
Label: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Number Of Items: 4
Publication Date: May 14, 2009
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Studio: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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There was no single, dramatic event that set the current financial crisis off. A whole series of very questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over a period of years, built up the pressures that led to a sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began to fall like dominoes as a result of investing in securities based on housing prices. This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story. It also attempts to determine whether what is being done to deal with the problem is more likely to make things better or worse.
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Thomas Sowell does an excellent job spelling out how exactly the housing boom and bust happened. This book is well researched,full of facts, and presented in an easy to read manner.
It explores the economic and political reasons of why it happened. It give quotes of the key players before, during , and after the bubble. It can really open your eyes as to how something that was supposed to be good turned out to be very bad, with it's dire effects spreading everywhere even beyond the ... Read More
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Thomas Sowell explains the current crisis clearly and in easily read layman's terms. It should be a must read for all Americans so we don't keep repeating these mistakes.
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Author, economist, and historian Thomas Sowell is always a must read for me. His "The Housing Boom and Bust" provides a thorough review of the economics of housing coupled with a history of housing booms and busts. This is a great book for those who want to understand what preceded and led to the housing bust of 2007/2008.
Sowell provides a detailed and apolitical review of the underlying systemic problems and the incentives for exploitation, as well as the key players, that led to the ... Read More
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Dr. Sowell's throrough analysis of the housing bubble is a reasoned antidote to the populist media descriptions of Senator Dodds' so-called Financial Reform Bill. Said media descriptions stereotype the financial firms of Wall Street as greedy loose cannons long overdue for calling to heel by a wise Government, and Dodds rises nobly to the occasion as he serves the last few months before an election in which his ethical record would prevent his return for another Senate term.
Sowell meticulously ... Read More
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C. Matthiessen in his review accuses Thomas Sowell of intellectual dishonesty. Specifically, he claims that Sowell intentionally misquotes Barney Frank and takes his (Frank's) remarks out of context. So which was it? Did Frank say "Load the dice" or "Roll the dice"? And what was the context?
At issue during the hearing was whether Fannie and Freddie should be subject to the same kinds of strict regulation as National banks, who are regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ... Read More
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