The Dead Pledge : : The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939 / / Judge Earl Glock.
The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these mortgages. The Dead Pledge reveals the surprising origins of American mortgages and American bailouts in policies dating back to the early twentieth cen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 20 b&w figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 MAKING THE LAND LIQUID The Roots of Land Banking
- CHAPTER 2 THE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES OF THE FEDERAL BANKS
- CHAPTER 3 THE FEDERAL LAND BANKS AND FINANCIAL DISTRESS, 1916– 1926
- CHAPTER 4 FALLING PRICES AND MORTGAGE CRISIS, 1926– 1933
- CHAPTER 5 HERBERT HOOVER AND THE URBAN- MORTGAGE CRISIS IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
- CHAPTER 6 A NEW DEAL FOR FARM MORTGAGES
- CHAPTER 7 HOUSING, HEAVY INDUSTRY, AND THE FORGOTTEN NEW DEAL BANKING ACT
- CHAPTER 8 AN ECONOMY BALANCED BY MORTGAGES
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX