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Author Isaac, William M., 1943- author.

Title Senseless panic : how Washington failed America / William M. Isaac with Philip C. Meyer
Published Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2012]
©2010

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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
"With new epilogue"--Cover
Online resource; title from digital title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2013)
Subject Savings and loan association failures -- United States -- History
Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Bank failures -- United States -- History
Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995 -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Bank failures
Savings and loan association failures
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Meyer, Philip C., author.
ISBN 9781118473320
1118473329