This week on q a, pulitzer prizewinning author and columnist, gretchen morganson discusses her new book with Joshua Rosner titled Reckless Endangerment. Cspan gretchen morganson, in your book, Reckless Endangerment, next to the picture of James Johnson county rate this the calculating political operative, johnson was an ominous architect of the homeownership rate that almost destroyed the economy in 2008. Why so much on his shoulders . Guest brian, we have to go back in time. A crisis doesnt happen overnight and if you want to understand what happened to create this mortgage bubble and the ensuing crisis, you have to go back to the early 90s when fannie mae and freddie mac were under a little bit of pressure from congress because the the s l crisis. Congress was concerned maybe there were losses sitting in these Mortgage Finance giants that were caused by public, was a pirate. The republican at the government had started them, that they had private shareholders, said they were operatin
Bands from the Yuma area, Sonora and Baja California will play Aug. 18 in San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., in a fund-raising concert to benefit the families of four musicians