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The Housing Boom and Bust

July 13, 2009 by mattperman

Thomas Sowell’s new book, The Housing Boom and Bust, would be worth a read by those wanting to learn more about the housing bust and its role in the current financial crisis. From the Amazon product description:

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up—and then suddenly collapsed.

The politics behind all this is another story full of strange twists. No punches are pulled when discussing politicians of either party, the financial dangers they created, or the distractions they created later to escape their own responsibility for what happened when the financial house of cards in the financial markets collapsed.

Sowell also wrote a column a few months ago on summarizing some of the main themes of the book. Justin Taylor points out today on his blog that Sowell was recently interviewed on the subject on “Uncommon Knowledge.”

Another helpful book on the financial crisis and the causes of the housing boom is Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. Meltdown was a very clear and enlightening book that I would love to summarize sometime (someday/maybe).

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