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<P>This book discusses how the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities.  Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation’s founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, this title examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs. It shows that since the Westward expansion, the U.S. government has used financial markets to manage America’s complex social divides, and politicians and officials across the political spectrum have turned to land sales, home ownership, and credit to provide economic opportunity without the appearance of market intervention or direct wealth redistribution.</P>

American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Abbreviations.
American Bonds.
1: The Problem and Promise of Credit in American Life.
2: The Credit Frontier.
3: Three Failures.
4: Credit as a Tool of Statecraft.
5: From a Nation of Farmers to a Nation of Homeowners.
6: Mortgage Bonds for the Small Investor.
7: The Rise of Federal Credit Programs.
8: Off-Budget and Decentralized.
9: A Return to Securitization.
10: What We Owe One Another.
Notes.
Index.
Other Backmatter.
A Note on the Type.

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