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• Title:Mortgage meltdown : a primer on America's subprime crisis / producer, Lin Buckfield.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Barry, Paul, 1952-
  Buckfield, Lin.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
  Films Media Group.
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences/Films Media Group, 2008.
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY audiovisual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HG5095 .M67 2008 dvd
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mortgage loans--United States.
  Credit--United States.
  Mortgage brokers--United States.
  Capitalism--United States.
  
• Genre/Form: Video recordings.
  Documentary films.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Site license UBC faculty, staff and students only.
  
• Credits:Camera, Andrew Taylor ; editor, Jessica Miller ; researcher, Kate Wild.
  
• Cast:Reporter, Paul Barry.
  
• Summary:"Reporter Paul Barry explains how the subprime market was created through a unique set of circumstances beginning with the fallout from September 11. The program charts the rise of easy credit to the point where mortgage brokers were running out of customers. Enter the subprime loan, the loan you could get when, as one real estate agent tells Four Corners, the only criterion was to see if the client was breathing. The program reveals how predatory lenders were unregulated and often unscrupulous, targeting people they knew couldn't pay. The broker would make the loan, take a fat commission, and pass on the responsibility as quickly as possible. One lawyer tells the program: "It's American capitalism at its worst."--Website.
  
• Notes:Title from disc label.
  Originally produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2007.
  DVD-R.