Other people's houses
Subtitle: how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business
By: Jennifer Taub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780300168983
Subjects: History; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995; Financial crises; Savings and loan association failures; Mortgage loans; Banks and banking
Description: Explores the origins of the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and draws parallels with the financial crisis of 2008, arguing that the failure to regulate banks combined with the laxness of regulators contributed to the crises and are problems that still persist today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.