About to see can be viewed in entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org and using the search function at the top of the page. First in february of 2015 the American Enterprise institutes peter appeared on our Author Interview program afterwards where he argued that Government Housing policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Peter, your new book is called hidden in plain sight, what really caused the worlds financial crisis and why it can happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Commission which was investigating the causes to have 07, 08 financial crisis. What did you see that they didnt . I had been locking at the housing system in the United States, doddfrank and well, im sorry, doddfrank and fannie mae for quite a while before i got on the commission. I had a lot of background on what had been happening in the housing sector, so i was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and what role they had played in the housing c
American descriptor and was life andrd things left unanswered. San Francisco Chronicle colonists. We are very pleased to have them both here for b the first time. Before we begin, i would like to find out how many of you have been to the mechanical institute. Who actually were there. Wonderful. How many new. Wonderful. Please come back wednesday noon, we have a free tour and librarians will surely around her Incredible Library on the second and third floors with the International Chess program down the hallway and we will give you a little bit of our history. In 1854 we were founded so we have a long history of San Francisco. In here the mechanics, ongoing authors. They have the International Chess club, that presents their ongoing lectures and tournaments. And also we have book clubs and writers groups. On friday nights, theres three talk. So we hope youll come join us for all of our cultural events. I would like to now it is our guest. Roland is an investor. Her online journalism any
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Of a Fort Worth Police officer. Amy in fort worth, texas, a white Police Officer has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot and killed an africanamerican woman inside her own home. The officer was responding to a nonemergency call aftfter a neighbor saw Atatiana Jeffersons front door was open. We will speak to civil rights attorney lee merritt, who is representing the jefferson family. Then to homewreckers how a gang of wall street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American Dream. 8 million americans lost their homes in the great recession, and all of those homes wenent somewhere. And wewe have not been tracking it. Whatat i learned writing my book is thahat a small group of vulte capitalists running donald trump, they are the ones who welloff with the killing the rest of us suffered. Amy we will speak to awardwinning reporter aaron glantz on his new book, homewreckers. All that and
She was killed d by a reckless t of a Fort Worth Police officer. Amy in fort worth, texas, a white Police Officer has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot and killed an africanamerican woman inside her own home. The officer was responding to a nonemergency call aftfter a neighbor saw Atatiana Jeffersons front door was open. We will speak to civil rights attorney lee merritt, who is representing the jefferson family. Then to homewreckers how a gang of wall street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American Dream. 8 million americans lost their homes in the great recession, and all of those homes wenent somewhere. And wewe have not been tracking it. Whatat i learned writing my book is thahat a small group of vulte capitalists running donald trump, they are the ones who welloff with the killing the rest of us suffered. Amy we will speak to awardwinning reporter aaron glantz on his new