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the Dead Pledge: Origins of Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939

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the Dead Pledge: Origins of Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939
the Dead Pledge: Origins of Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939

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the Dead Pledge: Origins of Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939

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The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these mortgages. reveals the surprising origins of American mortgages and American bailouts in policies dating back to the early twentieth century. Judge Glock shows that the federal government began subsidizing mortgages in order to help lagging sectors of the economy, such as farming and construction. In order to encourage mortgage lending, the government also extended unprecedented assistance to banks. Durgaing the Great Depression, the federal government made new mortgage lending and bank bailouts the centerpiece of its recovery program. Both the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations created semipublic financial institutions, such as Fannie Mae, to provide cheap, tradable mortgages, and they extended guarantees to more banks and financiers. Ultimately, Glock argues, the desire to protect the financial system took precedence over the desire to help lagging parts of the economy, and the government became ever more tied into the financial world. recasts twentieth-century economic, financial, and political history and demonstrates why the greatest “safety net” created in this era was the one supporting finance.

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