| Author | : Susan Wharton Gates |
| File Size | : 50,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 14 March 2017 |
| ISBN | : 9781421421933 |
| Pages | : 301 pages |
Days of Slaughter by Susan Wharton Gates Book PDF Summary
With a keen eye to the policy landscape, Gates relates the fateful decisions that led to Freddie Mac's downfall and desperate rescue. She also examines today's worrisome headlines about potential future bailouts, the uneven housing recovery, and stymied congressional reform efforts. Throughout the book, Gates argues convincingly that policymakers will be unable to safely reform the massive housing finance system that currently rests squarely on taxpayer shoulders without addressing deeper issues of ideology, moral hazard, and interest group politics. The first book to tell the story of Freddie Mac from an insider perspective--while casting a prophetic eye to the future--this first-hand account of housing policies, complex financial transactions, and the crazy quilt of federal and state actors involved in the Great Recession is a must-read.
