Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) |
Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. No calm before the storm -- Chapter 1. Home alone -- Chapter 2. The early years (1978-1981) -- Chapter 3. The savings bank and S & L crises -- Chapter 4. Penn square fails -- Chapter 5. The butcher empire collapses -- Chapter 6. Deposit insurance reform/ tackling Wall Street -- Chapter 7. Continental Illinois topples -- Chapter 8. Preparing to leave -- Chapter 9. Lessons learned -- Chapter 10. Policy mistakes : 1989 through 2007 -- Chapter 11. The subprime mortgage problem -- Chapter 12. SEC and FASB blunders -- Chapter 13. Schizophrenic failure resolution -- Chapter 14. The $700 billion bailout -- Chapter 15. Never again -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Authors' notes on sources -- About the authors -- Index |
Summary |
In this book, William Isaac, who headed the FDIC during the financial crisis of the 1980s, describes what was different about the 2008 crisis that allowed the failure of a comparative handful of institutions to nearly shut down the worldwide financial system |
Notes |
Includes index |
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"With new epilogue"--Cover |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2013) |
Subject |
Savings and loan association failures -- United States -- History
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Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Bank failures -- United States -- History
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Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995 -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
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Bank failures
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Savings and loan association failures
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Meyer, Philip C., author.
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ISBN |
9781118473320 |
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1118473329 |
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