Mortgage Markets and the Credit Crisis: What Went Wrong
Book: Financial Markets and Institutions, 11th Edition Author: Jeff Madura Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-133-94788-2
Chapter 9 is the one where everything comes together. Madura covers how mortgage markets work, the different types of mortgages, how they get packaged into securities, and how the whole system collapsed in 2008. If you want to understand the credit crisis, this is the chapter to read.