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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lowy, Martin E. High rollers. New York : Praeger : [Distributed to the trade by National Book Network], 1991 (OCoLC)652361969 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin E Lowy |
| ISBN: | 027593988X 9780275939885 |
| OCLC Number: | 23179401 |
| Description: | x, 321 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Fixed rates in a volatile world -- How insured S&Ls fail -- Dick Pratt figures out how to run a bankrupt federal insurance fund -- The false spring of 1983 -- Real estate lending 101 -- Permissive loan fee accounting : the linchpin -- Mammon against the God of home ownership -- Ed Gray tries to cope and the world goes galloping by -- The big Texas disaster -- The laws trash the trash -- Silverado, Lincoln and CenTrust -- The junk bond connection -- Fraud and misconduct 101 -- Wall Street remakes the mortgage business -- Politics as usual : everybody fiddles while the FSLIC burns -- Danny Wall and the 1988 deals -- FIRREA -- What caused how much of the losses? -- High rollers -- Evaluating deregulation -- Because banks are where the money is -- The importance of counting -- Avoid complexity that no one can understand -- Supervision and enforcement -- Regulation can't tame technology or market forces -- Deposit insurance reform -- The future of thrift institutions -- Appendix : dynamics of a broke S&L. |
| Responsibility: | Martin Lowy. |
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