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Meltdown : a free-market look at why the stock market collapsed, the economy tanked, and government bailouts will make things worse / Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Summary:

Historian Woods, writing as a libertarian, argues that government intervention in the economy actually caused the housing bubble.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781596985872
  • ISBN: 1596985879
  • Physical Description: xi, 194 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., [2009]
  • Distributor: New York : Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The elephant in the living room -- How government created the housing bubble -- The great Wall Street bailout -- How government causes the boom-bust business cycle -- Great myths about the Great Depression -- Money -- What now?
Subject:
Financial crises > United States.
Finance > Government policy > United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Bailouts (Government policy)
Free enterprise.
United States > Economic conditions > 2001-2009.
United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009.
United States > Economic policy.

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