Federal Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubble

The U.S. housing bubble and the fallout from its bursting are not the results of a laissez-faire monetary and financial system.

The U.S. housing bubble and the fallout from its bursting are not the results of a laissez-fairemonetary and financial system. They happened in an unanchored government fiat monetary system with a restricted financial system.

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Citation (Chicago Style)

White, Lawrence H. 2009. "Federal Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubble" Cato Journal 29 (Winter 2009): 115-125.

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