Panic in paradise : Florida's banking crash of 1926 /

A comprehensive study of bank loan failures during the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s. Using previously sealed bank records, Vickers demonstrates that virtually every bank failure in Florida during the 1920s involved insider abuse, conscious conspiracy to defraud, or both. The ominous parallel w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vickers, Raymond B., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Bank failures > Florida > History.
Banks and banking > Corrupt practices > Florida > History.
Banques > Faillites > Floride > Histoire.
Banques > Pratiques déloyales > Floride > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Banks & Banking.
Bank failures.
Banks and banking > Corrupt practices.
Banken (financiële instellingen)
Bedrijfssluitingen.
Florida.
Georgia.
Banking > History
Florida
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Promoter-bankers: Promoters in paradise
  • Capturing the regulators
  • Mizner bank
  • Regulatory complicity: Official deceit
  • Indictment of Florida?s Comptroller
  • Resignation of Georgia?s superintendent of banks
  • Aftermath: Indictments, Bankruptcies, and lawyers: Mad banker
  • System of protection
  • Friends of Vice-president Dawes
  • Senatorial privilege
  • Defeat of Ernest Amos
  • Epilogue
  • About the author.

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