Authors@Google: Lawrence Roberts February 27, 2009

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Lawrence Roberts visits Google's Irvine, CA office to discuss his book "The Great Housing Bubble: Why Did House Prices Fall?" This event took place on February 10, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Why did house prices fall? This is the fundamental question to most Americans, and to those who lent them money. Most homeowners did not care why residential real estate prices rose; they assumed prices always rose, and they should simply enjoy their good fortune. It was not until prices began to fall that people were left searching for answers. The Great Housing Bubble is a detailed analysis of the psychological and mechanical causes of the biggest rally, and subsequent fall, of housing prices ever recorded. This book examines the causes of the breathtaking rise in prices and the catastrophic fall that ensued to answer the question on every homeowner's mind: "Why did house prices fall?"