Walk Away
Index
A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | R | S | T | U
V | W | Z
13 Bankers, 51
60 Minutes, 1
A
Acorn, 33
Advances In Behavioral Economics, 69
American Individualism, 20
Architect’s Small House Service Bureau, 20
Are Home Prices The Next Bubble, 36
Ariely, Dan, 72
Aristotle, 46
Assets and the Poor, 32
Atlantic, The, 50
Austrian Business Cycle Theory, 66
Austrian Economics: An Anthology, 6
B
Babcock, Fredrick, 26
George Babbitt, 26
Bank of America, 11, 16, 17, 49, 56
Barnes, Alyson, 8
Barron’s, 42
Bernanke, Ben, 36, 39
Better Homes in America Movement, 20
Beyond Greed and Fear, 71
Blackstone Group, 8
Bloomberg News, 8
Bourgeois Utopias, 298
Building for Babbitt, 20
Building Suburbia, 11
Building the Dream, 21
Bureaucracy, 75
Bush, George W., 36
C
Caldwell, Phyllis, 50
Carmon, Ziv, 72
Casey, Doug, 60
CBS, 1
Cisneros, Henry, 33
CNBC, 3, 16
congressional loan conduit, 31 chart
Conquer the Crash, 60
Courson, John, 10
Cutaia, Susan and Anthony, 39, 41
D
De Coster, Karen, 5
Discriminating Risk, 31, 54
Duebel, Achim, 22
E
Edelman, Ric, 42
Einhorn, David, 56
Elliott Wave Theorist, 60
Empowerment Network, The, 32
Ethics of liberty, The, 46, 54
Ethics of Money Production, The, 61
Exotic Preferences, 70
Expanding the Opportunities, 32
Equity Office Properties, 8
F
Fannie Mae
Bank of America, 16–17
CEO James Johnson, 37
conventional mortgages, 31
expanded government role, 52
FDR created, 28
HUD, 30
industry centralization, 34
locking out borrowers, 59
loosened loan criteria, 33
losses, 13
no incentive to negotiate, 49
Rothbard view, 48
underwater houses, 76–77
Fair Housing Act, 30
FDIC, 35, 39, 48
Federal Home Loan Banking System, 22
Federal Housing Administration, 22, 23, 29
Federal Reserve, 4, 5, 35, 36, 39, 42
Financial Times, 53
FIREA, 32
First American Core Logic, 3
Fishman, Robert, 28, 29
For a New Liberty, 54
Freddie Mac
bond losses, 17
congressional authorization, 31
entrepreneurial risk, 56
expanded government role, 52
industry centralization, 34
loosened loan criteria, 33
Mortgage Electronic Registration System, 13
mortgages back to tenders, 16
Rothbard view, 48
G
Geithner, Tim, 53, 57
Genesove, David, 69
Ginnie Mae, 30–31
Goodman, Laurie, 49
Goodman, Peter S., 36, 37, 39
Government National Mortgage Asssociation, 3, 52
Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, 46
Great Depression, 4, 26, 52
Greenspan, Alan, 35
Gross, Bill, 52
Guiso, Luigi, 45
H
Hagerty, James R., 49
Hayden, Dolores, 22, 28
history of home values, 2 chart
Home Depot, 5
Home Modernization Bureau, 20
Hoover, Herbert, 4, 20, 21, 36
HOPE, 32
Housing Advisory Council, 26
Hudson, Kris, 9
Hülsmann, Jörg Guido, 61, 62
Hutchinson, Janet, 20, 27–28
I
Indiviglio, Daniel, 50
J
Johnson, James, 37
Johnston, Joseph F., 8
journal, Association for Financial Counseling, 41
journal of Financial Planning, 41, 42
journal of Markets & Morality, 8
K
Kemp, Jack, 32–33
Kudlow, Larry, 16
Kwak, James, 52
L
La Valle, Nye, 14
Langone, Ken, 5
Las Vegas, 3, 49, 50, 57, 71, 79
Las Vegas Review journal, 50
Legal Studies Discussion Paper, 1
Levitin, Adam, 12
Levitt, William, 20
Lewis, Sinclair, 26
Lira, Gonzalo, 12–14
Lowenstein, George, 70
Lowenstein, Roger, 11, 62
Luth, Don, 62
M
Macerich Co., 9
Market For Liberty, The, 56
Marketing and Financing Home Ownership, 19
Mauldin, John, 14
Mayer, Christopher, 69
McCarthy, Jonathan, 36
Miami Beach, 3
Mind of the Market, The, 71
Mises, Ludwig von, 6, 75
Moffett, James, 26
Morgan Stanley, 8, 9
Morgenson, Gretchen, 16
MSNBC, 16
Murin, Joseph, 3, 5
Murphy, Larry, 50
N
Naked Capitalism, 14
National Association of Real Estate Boards, 20
National Association of Realtors, 31
National Homeownership Strategy, 33–34
Natural law and the fiduciary duties, 8
New Deal, 23
New York Times, iv, 16, 51
O
Obama, Barack Hussein, 14
OFHEO, 32
Otis, James, iii
Own Your Own Home, 4, 19, 20
P
Past Due, 36
Paulson Jr., Henry M., 10
Peach, Richard W., 36
Phoenix, 3, 51
PIMCO, 52, 53
Pines, Michael, 16
Pinto, Edward, 33
Powell, Michael, 51
Power and Market, 57
Prechter, Robert, 60
Predictably Irrational, 72
Prelec, Dražen, 70
private property, iii, 24–25, 27–28, 47
Pruitt, A. D., 9
R
Ranieri, Lewis, 49
Ratigan, Dylan, 16
Reagan, Ronald, 31
Reynolds, Anna and Charlie, 48
Rise of the Community Builders, The, 20
Rothbard, Murray, 46–48, 54–55, 57, 60
S
Sanders, Anthony, 37
San Francisco, 8, 9
Sapienza, Paola, 45
Savings & Loan crisis, 32
Schakett, Jack, 50
Sennholz, Hans, 61
Sharga, Rick, 50
Shefrin, Hersh, 71
Shermer, Michael, 71
Sherraden, Michael, 32
Shiller, Robert J., 2
Simon Property Group, 9
Slater, Robert, 39
Smith, Alfred E., 21
Smith, Yves, 14
Snow, Marian, 40, 41
strategic default
default moralists, 58
defined, 1
divided opinion, 5
Emotional Drivers, 69
Moral and Social Constraints, 45
Morgan Stanley, 8
what is the downside, v
Stop Sitting on Your Assets, 40
Stuart, Guy, 31, 34, 54
Sugrue, Thomas J., 19, 23
T
Tannehill, Linda and Morris, 56
Task, Aaron, 11
Taubman, Robert, 9
Thaler, Richard, 71
Thompson, Diane E., 51
Tilson, Whitney, 49, 63
U
Underwriting Manual, 24–26
under water, 3, 4, 10
University of Chicago, 1, 45
Untapped Riches, 39
V
VA loan program, 29–30
Vornado Realty Trust, 9
W
Wall Street Journal, iv, 9–11, 33, 49
Weiss, Marc, 19, 20
Whalen, Chris, 16, 56
White, Brent T., 1, 2, 7, 46, 75
Wikipedia, 31
Wright, Gwendolyn, 21, 27
Z
Zell, Sam, 8
Zingales, Luigi, 1, 45
