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Author Taub, Jennifer.

Title Other people's houses : how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business / Jennifer Taub.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  332.72 T19    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  332.7209 TAUB    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  332.7209 TAUB    Check Shelf
Description viii, 406 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-383) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
Savings and loan association failures -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Mortgage loans -- United States.
Banks and banking -- United States -- History.
Financial crises -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780300168983 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300168985 (cloth : alk. paper)
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