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Busted : life inside the great mortgage meltdown
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Busted : life inside the great mortgage meltdown

Author: Edmund L Andrews
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Busted weaves together the author's own ride to the edge of bankruptcy with the tragicomic stories of his lenders, the Wall Street pros behind them, and the policymakers in Washington who were oblivious until it was too late.
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Document Type: Book
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.

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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  Read more...

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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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