When Gideon is trapped in the palace, only the little duchess, Alice, can help him escape. But Alice lives as a prisoner herself, and wants to run away. And so begins the unlikely friendship between a common thief and a duchess as they set off on their adventure. Suggested level: primary.

4) Days of slaughter: inside the fall of Freddie Mac and why it could happen again

Author

Gates, Susan Wharton

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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"In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on the brink of insolvency. Fearing that confidence in the housing market would collapse completely if Freddie Mac and its competitor Fannie Mae failed, the US government made the difficult decision to place the two firms into conservatorship, taking control away from shareholders. Although the taxpayer commitment...