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Senseless panic : how Washington failed America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isaac, William M., 1943-
Other Authors: Meyer, Philip C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2010.
Subjects:
Savings and loan association failures > United States > History.
Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Bank failures > United States > History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Home alone
  • The early years (1978-81)
  • The savings bank and S&L crises
  • Penn square fails
  • The butcher empire collapses
  • Deposit insurance reform/ tackling Wall Street
  • Continental Illinois topples
  • Preparing to leave
  • Lessons learned
  • Policy mistakes : 1989 through 2007
  • The subprime mortgage problem
  • SEC and FASB blunders
  • Schizophrenic failure resolution
  • The $700 billion bailout
  • Never again.