TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard,Timothy
TI  - The mortgage wars: inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics, and the collapse of the American dream 
SN  - 9780071821094
AV  - HG2040.5.U5 H69 2013
U1  - 332.7/20973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Federal National Mortgage Association
KW  - Mortgage loans
KW  - United States
KW  - Subprime mortgage loans
KW  - Mortgage banks
KW  - History
KW  - Housing
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "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. --
ER  -