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

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

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

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 article is interesting because it identifies individuals and groups of people as the main cause of the economic crisis. The list provided of those at fault shows how irresponsible many groups of people were and how that all contributed to the economic crisis.

Not only did this article suggest numerous causes for the economic crisis, but it reminded the reader that the explanations vary depending on viewpoints. Rarely does everyone come to a consensus about what truly caused the recesssion. During my research, I will need to remember how biases may impact the info I gather.

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.

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.

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.

The current economic crisis is one that has greatly affected the entire world, which is a fact often overlooked. I need to consider causes for the recession outside of American issues since the recession has impacted many other nations as well.

This essay is one of the most technical resources I have found. Yet, it further supports that economic theories and concepts can help explain how we arrived at the current economic crisis. This essay also brings up another recession in the 90s that I can also reference.

It's not a secret that political parties clash on what they believe truly caused the financial crisis, and this interview further demonstrates that. Politics certainly played a part in causing the crisis and we also learned that there may have been missed opportunities to prevent such a severe recession. This interview format is also one that I found interesting.

This resource introduces a different theory of how income inequality in the country contributed to the recession. Another strong factor is the stimulus further strengthening the problem.