The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell Paperback Book

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Rent The Housing Boom and Bust

Author: Thomas Sowell

Narrator: Dean, Robertson

Format: Unabridged-MP3, Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: Jul 2009

Genre: Business & Economics - Real Estate

Retail Price: $29.95

Synopsis

There was no single, dramatic event that set the current financial crisis off. A whole series of very questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over a period of years, built up the pressures that led to a sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began to fall like dominoes as a result of investing in securities based on housing prices. This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story. It also attempts to determine whether what is being done to deal with the problem is more likely to make things better or worse.

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BookLender review by Gus on 2010-09-10 12:45:26

Very insightful book about part of our economic situation. Government intervention is one of the causes of the housing boom and bust. We know that the more we allow the government to intervene in our lives the greater the changes of our down fall increases. Not a long book and a must read.