Taylor, John B.

Getting off track : how government actions and interventions caused, prolonged, and worsened the financial crisis / by John B. Taylor. - Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2009. - xii, 92 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. - Hoover Institution Press publication series ; no. 570 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-79) and index.

What caused the financial crisis -- What prolonged the crisis -- Why the crisis worsened dramatically a year after it began -- What went right in the two decades before the crisis -- Why a black swan landed in the money market in August 2007.

9780817949716 (acidfree paper)

2009003410


Financial crises.
Financial crises--United States.
Monetary policy.
Mortgages--Government policy.

HB3722 / .T39 2009

330.973