Despite reports that the recession may be over, the unemployment rate is more than ten percent and home foreclosures are at a record high. It's no secret that the U. S. economy is in shambles because of the recent housing bubble. However, according to Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the people who looked the other way as the eight trillion dollar housing bubble grew unchecked are trying to rewrite history by downplaying the impact of the bubble. In Baker's new book, False Profits ...
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Despite reports that the recession may be over, the unemployment rate is more than ten percent and home foreclosures are at a record high. It's no secret that the U. S. economy is in shambles because of the recent housing bubble. However, according to Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the people who looked the other way as the eight trillion dollar housing bubble grew unchecked are trying to rewrite history by downplaying the impact of the bubble. In Baker's new book, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, he recounts the strategies used by the country's top economic policymakers to keep the American public unaware of their failure to recognize the housing bubble and to take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs, homes, and the life savings for tens of millions of people.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 174 p. Contains: Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009044859 Type of material Book Personal name Baker, Dean, 1958-Main title False profits: recovering from the bubble economy / Dean Baker. Published/Created Sausalito, CA: PoliPointPress: Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, c2010. Description vii, 174 p. : ill.; 22 cm. ISBN 9780982417126 (alk. paper) 0982417128 (alk. paper) LC classification HG181. B248 2010 Contents Economic collapse: it is their fault--Surveying the damage--Terrible tale of the TARP--Will they ever discover the housing bubble? --Stimulus: it is just spending--Real stimulus: progressive programs to boost the economy--Reforming the financial system--Remember the housing bubble! LC Subjects Finance--United States. Financial crises--United States. United States--Economic conditions--2009-United States--Economic policy--2009-Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 330.973 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn419868106
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