Charles R. Morris

Charles R. Morris is the author of "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crash," (2008). He has written ten other books, including "The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment," one of The New York Times’ Best Books of 1980, "The Coming Global Boom," a New York Times Notable Book of 1990, and "The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy," a Barrons’ Best Book of 2005. A lawyer and former investment banker, Mr. Morris’s articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.


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• The Continuous Housing Free Fall 07/07/2008 | 10 Comments
• Wall St. Still Hasn't Learned 06/23/2008 | 3 Comments
• Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction 06/10/2008 | 1 Comment
• The Other Subprime Loans 06/03/2008 | 2 Comments
• U.S. Still a Manufacturing Super Power 05/20/2008 | 2 Comments
• Fed Stirs Nightmares of Return to '70s 05/08/2008
• Is the Worst Over? 04/28/2008 | 1 Comment
• Time to Buy Gold Bars? 04/07/2008
• Not So Fast on Mortgage Solutions 03/25/2008 | 2 Comments
• Wall Street as Black Hole 03/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Bailout Bernanke: Hero of Wall Street 03/16/2008 | 1 Comment
• Imploding Credit Bubble to Hit $1 Trillion 02/12/2008 | 4 Comments
• Credit Crisis Only Begins With Mortgages 02/12/2008 | 3 Comments

• Writedowns “And what caused the assumption the bond is risky in the first place”

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