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The banks did it an anatomy of the financial crisis Neil Fligstein.

By: Fligstein, NeilMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) illustrationsISBN: 0674259025; 9780674259027Subject(s): United States | 2000-2099 | Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Mortgages -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Banks and banking | Financial crises | Mortgages | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic HistoryGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. | History. DDC classification: 330.973/0931 LOC classification: HB3725 | .F55 2021Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
A long strange trip -- From mortgages to mortgage securitization -- The rise of the vertically integrated private banks, 1992-2001 -- Financial innovation and the alphabet soup of financial products -- The subprime moment, 2001-2008 -- The crisis and its spread worldwide -- Fraud and the financial crisis -- Why did the federal reserve miss the crisis of 2008? -- The banks did it (with the help of the government).
Summary: "To understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages-originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearly collapsed the economy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A long strange trip -- From mortgages to mortgage securitization -- The rise of the vertically integrated private banks, 1992-2001 -- Financial innovation and the alphabet soup of financial products -- The subprime moment, 2001-2008 -- The crisis and its spread worldwide -- Fraud and the financial crisis -- Why did the federal reserve miss the crisis of 2008? -- The banks did it (with the help of the government).

"To understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages-originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearly collapsed the economy"-- Provided by publisher.

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