[ FreeCourseWeb ] The Banks Did It - An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis

The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis

English | June 8, 2021 | ISBN: 0674249356 | EPUB | 336 pages | 5.2 MB

A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the mortgage-securitization industry, which explains the complex roots of the 2008 financial crisis.

More than a decade after the 2008 financial crisis plunged the world economy into recession, we still lack an adequate explanation for why it happened. Existing accounts identify a number of culprits―financial instruments, traders, regulators, capital flows―yet fail to grasp how the various puzzle pieces came together. The key, Neil Fligstein argues, is the convergence of major US banks on an identical business model: extracting money from the securitization of mortgages. But how, and why, did this convergence come about?

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