Inside Job
eBook - ePub

Inside Job

The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

  1. 584 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Inside Job

The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

About this book

New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: "Hard to put down" ( Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions to spread their taxpayer-insured assets into new and risky investments.
 
The looser regulations and reduced federal oversight also opened the industry to an army of shady characters, white-collar criminals, and organized crime groups. Less than 10 years later, half the nation's savings and loans were insolvent, leaving the American taxpayer on the hook for a large hunk of the nearly half a trillion dollars that had gone missing.
 
The authors of Inside Job saw signs of danger long before the scandal hit nationwide. Decades after the savings and loan collapse, Inside Job remains a thrilling read and a sobering reminder that our financial institutions are more fragile than they appear.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Series Introduction
  5. Preface to the 2015 Edition
  6. Introduction
  7. Dramatis Personae
  8. Chapter 1 Original Sin
  9. Chapter 2 A Short History
  10. Chapter 3 Shades of Gray
  11. Chapter 4 Centennial Gears Up for Deregulation
  12. Chapter 5 $10,000 in a Boot
  13. Chapter 6 The Downhill Slide
  14. Chapter 7 Lazarus
  15. Chapter 8 Back in Washington
  16. Chapter 9 Tap Dancing to Riches
  17. Chapter 10 Buying Deposits
  18. Chapter 11 Renda Meets the Lawyer from Kansas
  19. Chapter 12 The End of the Line
  20. Chapter 13 “Miguel”
  21. Chapter 14 Flushing Gets a Bum Rapp
  22. Chapter 15 Casino Federal
  23. Chapter 16 The Red Baron
  24. Chapter 17 Going Home
  25. Chapter 18 Dark in the Heart of Texas
  26. Chapter 19 The Last Squeezing of the Grapes
  27. Chapter 20 The Godfather
  28. Chapter 21 Beebe Gets Caged
  29. Chapter 22 Round Three
  30. Chapter 23 A Thumb in the Dike
  31. Chapter 24 The Touchables
  32. Chapter 25 Friends in High Places
  33. Chapter 26 The House That Milken Built
  34. Chapter 27 The Rainmaker
  35. Chapter 28 A Bush in the Hand
  36. Chapter 29 Into the Black Hole
  37. Chapter 30 What Happened?
  38. Epilogue
  39. Appendix A The Comptroller Report on Herman K. Beebe
  40. Appendix B The Five-Senators Meeting
  41. Appendix C Written Tesitmony
  42. Glossary
  43. Source Notes
  44. Index
  45. Acknowledgments
  46. About the Authors
  47. Copyright Page

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