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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edmund L Andrews |
| ISBN: | 9780393067941 0393067947 |
| OCLC Number: | 286488609 |
| Description: | xv, 220 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Money for nothing -- Prudence is for losers -- My lender drinks the Kool-aid -- Magical thinking, real debts -- Alan Greenspan -- Conning the con men -- In search of smart money -- Over the cliff -- Enablers of disaster -- Bull in the subprime shop -- Public flailing, private failing -- Reverse redlining -- God help us all. |
| Responsibility: | Edmund L. Andrews. |
Abstract:
Presents the story of the fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better. This title weaves together the author's ride to the edge of bankruptcy with the tragic-comic stories of his lenders, the Wall Street professionals behind them and the policymakers in Washington who were oblivious.
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Andrews s autopsy on his mortgage and the conditions that helped produce it is sharp and at times mordantly funny.--Tom Vanderbilt
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