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The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis.A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 56 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or otherwise low-quality. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis.After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.
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9781594037702 | Encounter Books, January 13, 2015, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event.
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9781594038655 | Encounter Books, March 29, 2016, cover price $17.99
Product Description: This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act. The book shows that every major provision of the act can be traced directly to that narrative, which ignored the governmentâs own role and focused entirely on the errors of the private sector...read more
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9780844772387 | Aei Pr, January 25, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act.
Product Description: Peter J. Wallison is the only member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) to release a formal dissent to the FCIC's official report on the causes of the financial crisis. Wallison, codirector of financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the FCIC's report fails to address the cause of the deterioration in mortgage underwriting standards that led to the housing bubble widely accepted as the key factor in destabilizing the American economy...read more
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9780844772301 | Aei Pr, May 16, 2011, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Peter J.
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9780844742700 | Aei Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $30.00
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9780844742717 | Aei Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $20.00
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9780844742526 | Aei Pr, June 30, 2007, cover price $20.00
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9780844741901 | Aei Pr, September 27, 2004, cover price $20.00
A first-hand account of Reagan's presidency by a former White House counsel describes the president's commitment to key priciples and noting his success in such areas as the economy, arms reduction, and the Iran-Contra affair.
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9780813340463 | Perseus Books Group, December 1, 2002, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A first-hand account of Reagan's presidency by a former White House counsel describes the president's commitment to key priciples and noting his success in such areas as the economy, arms reduction, and the Iran-Contra affair.
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9780813390475 | Basic Books, April 13, 2004, cover price $16.95
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9780817939922 | Hoover Inst Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $15.00
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9780815713173 | Brookings Inst Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $10.00
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9780844741659 | Aei Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $20.00
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9780844741666 | Aei Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $20.00
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9780844741475 | Aei Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $10.00
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9780844771465 | Aei Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.
Product Description: In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780844741468 | Aei Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.
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9780844771373 | Aei Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $55.01
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9780844771380 | Aei Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $22.01
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9780844770024 | Aei Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $11.50
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