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Other people's houses : how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business / Jennifer Taub.
LIBRA HG2151 .T38 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taub, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
- Savings and loan association failures--Economic aspects--United States.
- Savings and loan association failures.
- Mortgage loans--United States.
- Mortgage loans.
- Financial crises.
- History.
- United States.
- Banks and banking--United States--History.
- Banks and banking.
- Financial crises--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 406 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Explores the origins of the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and draws parallels with the financial crisis of 2008, arguing that the failure to regulate banks combined with the laxness of regulators contributed to the crises and are problems that still persist today.
- Contents:
- Part I Highfliers
- Chapter 1 The Nobelmans 9
- Chapter 2 The Condo King and His Empire 17
- Chapter 3 The Run on American Savings and Loan 34
- Chapter 4 The Saturday Night Massacre 47
- Chapter 5 Deregulation Inauguration 59
- Chapter 6 The Red Baron of Finance 78
- Chapter 7 The Bailout 97
- Chapter 8 Friends of the Court 108
- Part II Repeat Performance
- Chapter 9 Friend of the Family 123
- Chapter 10 The Factory Line 140
- Chapter 11 The Bubble 163
- Chapter 12 First to Fall 188
- Chapter 13 Surf and Turf 209
- Chapter 14 Legal Enablers of the Toxic Chain 222
- Chapter 15 The Great Betrayal 247
- Part III Myth Confronts Reality
- Chapter 16 Dispelling Myths about the Crisis 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300168983
- 0300168985
- OCLC:
- 862098427
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