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

Author
Fligstein, Neil
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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"--
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ISBN
9780674249356 hardcover
0674249356 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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