A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine — 2021-05-14T05:00:00Z

What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned and applied to the current health and economic crisis? Isaac Martin and Christopher Niedt's 2015 work, Foreclosed America, paints a sociological portrait of households evicted from their homes in the United States.
The economic consequences of the Covid‑19 pandemic invite comparisons with previous global economic crises, not least the recent subprime crisis. This crisis, which

- Reviews / subprime, crisis, financial crisis, housing crisis, Covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, United States, foreclosure, evictions, inequalities

Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen

Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie — 2016-03-08T06:00:00Z

As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn't have predicted that its backstory would be adapted into not one but two Hollywood features. Desiree Fields and Tom Gillespie review The Big Short and 99 Homes—two films depicting landscapes where not even the winners of the game believe in it anymore.
Around the world, the US subprime mortgage market is understood as the epicenter of the near-implosion of the global economy in

- Reviews / financial crisis, housing, real estate, crisis, foreclosure, subprime, Wall Street, film, documentary

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A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen