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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs (1 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1586485636
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586485634
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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The first big book on the credit crunch saw the crisis coming three years ago ... (Morris s) provocative book is a well-aimed opening shot in a debate that will only grow louder in coming months. --The Economist

(t)his is a scary book for scary times... Morris provides a fascinating and clear chronicle of how a good idea turned into so many bad loans. --Spectator Business

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...a comprehensive and jargon-free description of the hideously complex financial securities that have brought the credit system to collapse.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good coverage of the basics., 27 Aug 2008
If you are buying any other books, or reading any other articles on the recent "credit crunch", you should seriously consider getting this book too. The writer is a lawyer, and in very precise plain clear language, describes how each of the new types of financial instrument, from "put" to "synthetic collateralized debt obligation", works, covering why people originally developed them, and how people have gone on to use and enhance them. It then covers all the risks that have developed as a result of their use in practice, and briefly covers the overall financial consequences, as far as people understand them. This includes talking about various regulatory failures that have contributed to the crisis.

He then makes an overall estimate of the kinds of losses that are likely. Although the real losses are looking even more serious now, several months later, he gives figures and estimates in his reasoning that enable you to get some kind of overall picture of the problems. His focus is almost entirely on the United States, but the financial instruments used elsewhere are the same, and the regulatory failures similar.

If you are reading other accounts of the developing crisis, this is a very good place to get the basic technical information on what everyone is talking about. Some books leap into explanations, with only very brief, and sometimes misunderstood, accounts of the financial instruments involved. Even if you disagree with some of Morris's points of view or conclusions, his clear account of how each financial instrument works is still very helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, readable account, 10 Jul 2008
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I found this very short book (169 pages plus notes) very helpful in understanding what the "credit crunch" is about--what caused it, what the current imbalances in the financial system are, and how it may unravel. It starts further back in time than I would have expected (the 1950s to 1970s), but does this to explain the regulatory and financial stage on which the bubble of credit was born. Financial and economic terms are explained, without dumbing things down. Really excellent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Prescient and a great read, 10 Dec 2008
I read this shortly after it was published before many of the events in the current financial & economic crisis unfolded. Over the past few months I have seen its reasoning and predictions born out many times. There are still other predictions which only the future will prove one way or the other but having seemed more fanciful at the time of writing to many mainstream analysts now seem anything but. This is the best book I have read on the credit crisis and, whilst I have some background in finance, unlike a previous viewer I didn't think that it overwhelmed with terminology - I thought it explained complex finance in a very readable manner. I was originally a bit suspicious about a finance book written by a lawyer but I have to concede that this is an impressive account.

Once you've read this, if you haven't read it already and are interested for more, JK Galbraith's account of the Wall Street Crash of the 1930's is great reading and very relevant today.
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