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This is a working paper that talks about asset prices, including housing prices, and how they effect the stock market. It also talks about the price swings in the housing markets of different countries.

This paper talks about how to identify when the housing prices may be out of equilibrium. Has tons of data from a few decades. May help to compare 1980's to today.

This resource describes trending in housing spending and how the mortgage market has changed. This resource will help me learn how the changes to the mortgage market benefit or hurt different groups.

This author rephrases the question of what caused the economic crisis to be: what caused the housing bubble? This perspective is an interesting one because it confirms one of my suspicions that the state of the housing market was a huge contributor to the crisis.

This paper talks about the housing market and how it is not efficent. There are many charts and graphs and tons of data.

This paper talks about behavior of borrows and lenders. It also has models for housing prices and default predictions.

This paper talks about housing wealth and how it differs from financal wealth. It has data from many different parts of the world. It has a few charts and graphs.

This working paper talks about the connections between the housing market and the business cycle. Has many graphs comparing different countries.

Like many other resources, this articles identifies the poor housing market as one of the main contributors to the economic crisis. However, the focus is that this recession is the longest since the Great Depression. I need to continue to research what factors are making this particular recession worse than so many of the others in the 1900s.

In the promotional spiel for Swedish House Mafia's 45 minute long documentary 'Take One" there was one sentence in particular that attracted my attention -"DJs are the new rockstars"; a quote coming from none other than the Rolling Stone Magazine.

This paper talks about the growth of subprime leanding and its impact on the overall housing market. It has a few interesting charts.

This is a copy of The Health Care Bill. There is alot of false speculation and negative criticism about the bill that can influence ones opinion. Well here it is! You can research it yourself, find out the truth and develop your own opinion without the bias views from others.

This paper talks about the methodology and models used to help predict future home prices. It also talks about the Case-Shiller home pricing index. Case-Shiller is very respected in the real estate market.

This working paper talks in great detail about subprime morgages. It also talks about loan performance.

This is Skrillex's Official website. Who is Skrillex you ask? He is one of the leading forces in the DJ movement spreading across the U.S.. He is involved in making house music and of course dubstep, he has became a rapid success in just about a year. Skrillex is now topping charts and filling hearts with the love for this music. Check him out on this website. This will be my main topic of discussion in my research because he is the leader in this movement. He is America's rockstar right now and most of America doesnt even know it. This can help me research and provide details on his success in the US.

This is a letter from the British Royal Society, the main branch of research in the British government in regards to the issue of global warming. It may be useful to get a perspective from outside the United States.

While this article identifies how credit is a major cause of the economic crisis, it goes one step further to describe the cause of the credit crisis, which is greed. This brings up an argument that many Americans played a part in causing the crisis because their greed was overwhelming to the market.

This resource is the first I've found that also identifies causes of a recession from another era. Comparing and contrasting the current economic crisis to that of other time periods may allow me to pinpoint the differences and learn why the 2008 recession was so severe.