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High rollers : inside the savings and loan debacle

Author: Martin E Lowy
Publisher: New York : Praeger : [Distributed to the trade by National Book Network], 1991.
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Lowy, Martin E.
High rollers.
New York : Praeger : [Distributed to the trade by National Book Network], 1991
(OCoLC)652361969
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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