Index

A

adjustable-rate mortgages, 71, 75, 85

affordability, preserving, 152

aggregating capital, 150-152

Americanism, 16

ARMs. See adjustable-rate mortgages

B

bad-debt deduction, history of, 35

banks

commercial banks, 26

Federal Home Loan Bank System, 32, 50

mutual savings banks, 26

national institutions, 28

nonfarm residential mortgage holdings, by type of institution (1900-2010), 30

savings and loan associations

during Great Depression, 31-33

Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), 33

first hundred years (1830-1930), 25-31

founding of, 9

postwar growth and diversification, 33-36

shifting of interest-rate risk to borrowers, 70-71

turbulence of 1980s, 36-37

Bauhaus movement, 3

Beijing, China housing prices, 117

below-market interest ...

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