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Senseless panic : how Washington failed America /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Isaac, William M., 1943- (Autor), Meyer, Philip C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2012]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.