Summary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009

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Elias, Stephen

Summary: "If you're one of the millions of Americans in danger of losing your house, The Foreclosure Survival Guide provides the practical information you need,"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.04 ELI

Redleaf, Andrew.

Summary: [The authors] reveal the Crash of 2008 as the "predictable outcome of an ideology that has dominated the American financial establishment for upwards of forty years." This "ideology of modern finance" replaced the capitalist's appreciation for free markets as a context for human creativity with the worship of efficient markets as substitutes for that creativity. The capitalist understands free...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Vigilante Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64273 RED

Lowenstein, Roger.

Summary: The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64 LOW

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta

Summary: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.5 TAY