From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession: A Financial History of the United States 20062009 [Paperback]

Originally published in 2010, this book covers the development of the mortgage market, the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subprime crisis, and the effect of this crisis on financial institutions as well as the stock market panic of 2008. It details the massive government interventions that sought to prevent another Great Depression.

Part 3: The Growth of the Mortgage Market 9. Securitization 10. Prelude to a Crisis Part 4: The Subprime Crisis 11. The Crisis Begins 12. The Great Panic Begins 13. The Crisis Continues Part 5: The Crisis Abates 14. The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Crisis 15. Regulation, Reform and the Subprime Crisis.

Originally published in 2010, this work covers the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Jerry W. Markham is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, USA, where he teaches corporate and international business law.

Markham provides probing insights into the causes of recent financial crises. Understanding the causes of the crisis is necessary to understand possible safeguards for the future. Thomas Lee Hazen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.