This American Life Podcast
A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s?
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HowStuffWorks Podcast
The 2008 US financial crisis has been blamed on the excessive use of mortgage-backed securities. But what exactly is a mortgage-backed security? Learn more about these securities and how they contributed to the crisis in the crisis in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
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The Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Domestic Open Market Operations During 2009". A Report Prepared for the Federal Open Markets Committee January 2010.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "FAQs: MBS Purchase Program". February 17, 2010. <http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/mbs_faq.html>
"Stop the Money Presses: Fed MBS Purchase Program". cnbc.com March 31, 2010.< http://www.cnbc.com/id/36114811/>
Glink, Ilyce. "Mortgage Backed Securities Purchase Program: Is $1.25 Trillion Enough?". CBS Money Watch.com February 2010.http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/home-equity/mortgage-backed-securities-purchase-program-is-125-trillion-enough/1648/
Adrian, Tobias, and Hyun Song Shin. "The Shadow Banking System: Implications for Financial Regulation." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports 1.382 (2009): 16. Print.
Gorton, Gary. "The Subprime Panic." European Financial Management 1 (2008): 38. Print.
Frame, Scott, and Lawrence White. “Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie.” Journal of Economic Perspective 19 (2005): 154-84. Web. 1 Mar 2010
Balin, Bryan. “Basel 1, Basel 2 and emerging Markets.” John Hopkins School of advances international studies (2008). Web. 1 Mar. 2010.
Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program Purchases Archives from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
