Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis—and Why It Could Happen Again

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The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—used to be a world-historical event. What caused it’s going to be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis used to be caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most
comprehensive financial-system regulation for the reason that New Deal. There’s evidence, on the other hand, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause every other crisis.

A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis used to be caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For instance, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 58 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or other low-quality mortgages. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis.

After this book is published, no person will be capable to claim that the financial crisis used to be caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book accommodates.
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