"There is a war that you’ve probably never heard of. It has been going on for decades, and if you own a house or aspire to, you need to know about it. It’s a war about brass-knuckle politics and balloon-size pride. It involves the sordid, john-seeking-whore relationship between the fat cats on Wall Street and the fatter cats in Washington. And their prize? Nothing less than the spoils of the largest credit market in the world."