The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to …

AMERICA'S MORTGAGE MARKET (Cornell University Press 2009). The book provides a good introduction to the causes of the crisis … in the mortgage market. Given, however, that the book was written before the crisis has fully taken its course, it does … fundamental questions include, what is the right level of complexity for the secondary mortgage market? What is the right level of …

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Housing Finance, Ideology, and the Rise of High-Risk Mortgage … Markets -- 1. U.S. Mortgage Market Development and Federal Policy to the Early 1990s -- 2. Mortgage Market Disparities and the … Dual Regulatory System in the Twentieth Century -- 3. The High-Risk Revolution -- 4. Mortgage Market Breakdown: The …