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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press (May 26, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300212704
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300212709
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Stan Mullin on November 1, 2015
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5.0 out of 5 starsWorth a Look
By Richard G. Evansii on July 28, 2014
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Lots of details which can bog you down a bit however it is these very details that expose just how corrupt the entire housing/lending/mortgage situation evolved and how, no better work than corrupt, congress and their cronies turned out to be. Enlightening and at the same time disgusting. I liked it a lot.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant account of the housing crisis and its lingering impact
By Frank on May 27, 2014
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I have read many books about the financial crisis, and Taub's is one of the best. What's really remarkable about this account is that it shows exactly how practices that were widely proscribed as criminal in the 1980s and 90s were rebranded or tinkered with in various ways to create similar, often strikingly similar, replicas of older scams.

The book has a compelling narrative momentum, constantly introducing fascinating characters. Anybody who enjoys the writing ofMatt Taibbi, Yves Smith, Nomi Prins, etc will find in this book a compelling new voice for critical finance.

Taub is also incredibly good on the law of finance, as one of the few academics writing in the area who also has significant practice experience at a large financial firm. She gets to the bottom of incredibly complex matters in bankruptcy and securities law, in an extraordinarily accessible way.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWidespread greed ditches the economy
By Ben S. Leet on January 6, 2015
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This is a very important book, excellently documented and argued. It is exhaustive. It is a tour de force. In mid passage I remember thinking that Jennifer Taub belongs on the Supreme Court. My emotions run high when dealing with this issue, but Taub manages a dispassionate analysis, careful and sequentially logical, very richly referenced, ultimately convincing and overwhelmingly so. Reading it demands a high interest level because it is a very detailed accounting, so detailed that the forest is lost for the needles on the trees. I listened to a CSPAN video from an author who argued that the subprime mortgage collapse was created by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 that in 2003 or so forced Fannie Mae to overdose on risky subprime mortgages. This CSPAN author claimed that his argument convinced all Republicans in Congress to vote against the Dodd Frank financial system reform act, which they did. One of the last chapters of Taub's book deals with ten myths and errors that have cropped up, including the one just mentioned. The nation it seems has lost sight that the mortgage crisis and foreclosures is ongoing, wreaking havoc still. About six months ago I think Zillow published a statement that 44% of mortgage holders are either underwater or prevented from selling their homes because of high closing costs; and that equates to 28% of U.S. households who are locked in. They are still paying for their mistake of refinancing during the bubble, taking out a new mortgage at an unrealistic price. I think this book will become a text in many college classrooms. Throughout the book runs the narrative, with excruciating detail, of lenders and loan originators skirting the law, involved with outright fraud, driving their companies into ruin for their personal benefit.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best books on the financial crisis
By Timothy Canova on May 27, 2014
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"Other People's Houses" is a compelling narrative that keeps the reader's attention from cover to cover. Taub crosses the decades and various disciplines to place the 2008 financial crisis in its full historical, legal, and political contexts.

Beginning with the story of one family, Harriet and Leonard Nobelman, and the details of their mortgage loan for a condominium purchase in the Dallas suburbs in 1984, Taub traces a chain of fraudulent and oppressive conduct by mortgage lenders and brokers, with implications that go far beyond the Nobelmans' personal default and bankruptcy and beyond the collapse of the Savings & Loan industry in the 1980s. She shows how the same players (the same financial institutions, executives, and investors) who were responsible for the S&L collapse resurfaced just a few years later -- with the help of compliant regulators -- to fuel the real estate bubble of the 2000s, and with many of the same risky and fraudulent lending practices. I know of no other study that so well demonstrates and dramatizes the parallels and continuities between the abusive subprime mortgage products by S&Ls in the 1980s and by banks and mortgage lenders in the housing bubble of the 2000s. Even the 2008 bailout of the big banks was foreshadowed by the federal response to the banking and S&L crisis of the 1980s.

Taub has accurately and persuasively interpreted the statutory and regulatory changes and judicial developments that led to these crises. She pulls no punches as both Democrats and Republicans alike are implicated in Wall Street's policy agenda.Read more ›
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