Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown

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Overview

"The icy slap of reality hit me two weeks after New Year's Day in January 2005. I walked out of the Times's Washington bureau, two blocks north of the White House, and crossed Farragut Square to my bank. I had a bad feeling about what the ATM would reveal about my balance, but I was shocked when I looked at the receipt: $196. For practical purposes, we were broke."

A compendium of breathtakingly bad judgment and cynicism on the part of the brainiest people and biggest institutions in American finance, Busted is a darkly humorous, fun-house surreal, and ultimately devastating account of the mortgage crisis that triggered a global financial disaster and nearly bankrupted the author.

  • Edmund L. Andrews
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"As I write in February 2009, I am four months past due on my mortgage and bracing for foreclosure proceedings to begin." Thus begins this cautionary and critical examination of the housing crisis, a story that turned personal when New York Times economics reporter Andrews got caught up in the housing bubble after falling in love with a woman and a house. Bringing in $120,000 a year in salary-most of which went to child support and alimony to his ex-wife, Andrews says he was able to get a "don't ask, don't tell" mortgage with the assumption that his new wife, Patty, would be able to get a job to keep them afloat, an expectation that didn't work out as planned. Because of his economics journalism background, Andrews says he "should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe," and he castigates himself as well as fellow borrowers, the financial industry that took advantage of them and a government that didn't put the brakes on the crisis that many economists warned about but that Alan Greenspan, the Bush administration and others ignored. This deeply personal exposé is timely and sobering in its candor. (June)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780393067941
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/28/2009
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 947,473
  • Product dimensions: 6.44 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Edmund L. Andrews is an economics reporter. A contributor to the New York Times for sixteen years, he is currently a senior Washington writer for the Fiscal Times. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Money for Nothing 3

2 Prudence is for Losers 21

3 My Lender Drinks the Kool-Aid 38

4 Magical Thinking, Real Debts 56

5 Alan Greenspan 65

6 Conning The Con Men 89

7 In Search of the Smart Money 105

8 Over the Cliff 123

9 Enablers of Disaster 133

10 Bull in the Subprime Shop 149

11 Public Flailing, Private Failing 167

12 Reverse Redlining 183

13 God Help Us All 199

Acknowledgments 219

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 26, 2009

    Sub-prime

    This book is a personal bailout in the guise of a memoir of a family's finances.

    In a nutshell: middle aged guy ditches wife and three kids for a woman who ditches her husband and four kids to be with him. Convinced that theirs is a love that shines brighter than the world has ever seen, he buys a house he knows he can ill afford because, well, they just want it. He doesn't have the money, and his new wife doesn't want to work, but he deserves it, you see. And, as an economics reporter for The New York Times, he knows exactly how to game the system. Until the system collapses.

    Edmund Andrews either doesn't have the skill or self-awareness to render himself or his wife in a sympathetic way. He is clearly besotted with her, although, hard as he tries to convince us of it (by telling us over and over again how sexy she is, how much he admires her high fashion sense and her love of fine food), it is exceedingly difficult to understand what he sees in her, or she in him. They both come across in his telling as nasty, self-involved, entitled people.

    As for the rest of it - the housing crisis, predatory lending, etc. - it's in there, and what there is, is okay. But you can pretty much get that information anywhere.

    There's a bit more to the story that the author isn't telling that some readers think is material to the story. But you'll have to go elsewhere to find out.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 7, 2009

    Not sure about this book...

    I got about half the way through and realized, the common thread seems to blame Bush and Greenspan. We all know there is plenty of blame, mainly on the left of the aisle for these shady loans. This, from a guy who should have know what he was doing and did not even know to get a home inspection. Kinda of hard to feel sorry for him especially when he has not taken full responsibilty for his actions.

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  • Posted June 29, 2009

    Busted...Twice

    Andrews writes a great tale of woe while explaining the financial shenanigans Wall Street created to lure the greedy, needy and in Andrews's case, love struck. It's hard to imagine a sophisticated NY Times financial reporter becoming burdened with a $500,000 mortgage while struggling through a divorce on a reduced take home income of less than $3,000 per month. Andrews is twice busted. First by engaging in a dangerous bet on ever increasing real estate values, and second, by being blinded by love for a twice bankrupt beautiful, but dysfunctional woman. Two hits to the chops that even this book deal won't fix.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 26, 2009

    Courageous and charming. It's a great read and well researched.

    I found this book fascinating and brave. Andrews explains how this all happened with clarity. Great book!

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