"Who benefited from America’s housing bust?" Listen to Aaron Glantz on Marketplce
Aaron Glantz's new book
Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream is out now and he went on
Marketplace to discuss it (read an excerpt via the link below as well).
❝ I AM ONE OF THE lucky ones. I profited off the housing bust. I leveraged the Great Recession to live the American Dream.
In May 2009, with the housing market in free fall, I bought a foreclosure. I scrounged money saved living in a nonprofit housing complex near the University of California at Berkeley, where I’d gone to school, and, with help from my parents, my wife’s parents, and my grandmother, cobbled together a down payment on a two-bedroom house … [Marketplace.org]
| AARON GLANTZ is a Pulitzer Finalist, Peabody & duPont Award-winning journalist, & author of several books, including Homewreckers. Watch him discuss the "Fake News Fight Back" below, and learn more about booking Aaron for your next event today. |
