The mortgage wars : inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics, and the collapse of the American dream /
Howard, Timothy (Business writer)
The mortgage wars : inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics, and the collapse of the American dream / Timothy Howard. - xvi, 288 pages ; 25 cm
"The former Fannie Mae CFO's inside look at the war between the financial giants and government regulators. A provocative true-life thriller about the all-out fight for dominance of the mortgage industry--and how it nearly destroyed the global financial system. Many books have been written about the 2008 financial crisis, but they miss the biggest story of the meltdown: the battle between giant financial companies to dominate the $11 trillion mortgage market that almost destroyed the global financial system. For more than twenty years, until 2004, Timothy Howard was a senior executive at the best known of those companies, Fannie Mae, and he was in the middle of that fight. --
9780071821094 0071821090
2013033450
Federal National Mortgage Association.
Mortgage loans--United States.
Subprime mortgage loans--United States.
Mortgage banks--History.--United States
Housing--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
HG2040.5.U5 / H69 2013
332.7/20973
The mortgage wars : inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics, and the collapse of the American dream / Timothy Howard. - xvi, 288 pages ; 25 cm
"The former Fannie Mae CFO's inside look at the war between the financial giants and government regulators. A provocative true-life thriller about the all-out fight for dominance of the mortgage industry--and how it nearly destroyed the global financial system. Many books have been written about the 2008 financial crisis, but they miss the biggest story of the meltdown: the battle between giant financial companies to dominate the $11 trillion mortgage market that almost destroyed the global financial system. For more than twenty years, until 2004, Timothy Howard was a senior executive at the best known of those companies, Fannie Mae, and he was in the middle of that fight. --
9780071821094 0071821090
2013033450
Federal National Mortgage Association.
Mortgage loans--United States.
Subprime mortgage loans--United States.
Mortgage banks--History.--United States
Housing--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
HG2040.5.U5 / H69 2013
332.7/20973