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Black Box Casino

How Wall Street's Risky Shadow Banking Crashed Global Finance

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Black Box Casino

How Wall Street's Risky Shadow Banking Crashed Global Finance

About this book

This cautionary tale explains how the murky and complex world of mortgage finance caused a global market meltdown—and offers new insights on how to create a stronger world of banking and mortgage finance. Years after the economic crisis of the late 2000s, Americans still want to know what went wrong—and why. Black Box Casino: How Wall Street's Risky Shadow Banking Crashed Global Finance provides an accurate and understandable explanation, compiling and interpreting mountains of evidence to provide clear analysis and insight into the crisis that traumatized people and institutions around the globe. The book provides a thorough, in-depth examination of the multiple contributing factors. The author goes back as far as 15 years before the crisis to show how the well-intentioned idea of providing home ownership prompted a government led effort to steadily weaken credit standards. He assigns partial blame on regulators that were unaware of growing levels of risk, ignored mounting evidence of a housing bubble, and failed to grasp the unintended consequences of certain regulations. The origins of the overload of subprime collateralized debt obligations that led to concentrated risks on the balance sheets of many large banks around the world are also explained.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780313392894
eBook ISBN
9780313392900
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 The Mortgage Meltdown
  5. 2 The Panic of 2007
  6. 3 Seeds of the Disaster
  7. 4 The Race to the Bottom
  8. 5 The Rise of Private Label
  9. 6 Wall Street’s Subprime CDO Mania
  10. 7 Fast Money and High Stakes
  11. 8 American International Group
  12. 9 Bear Stearns
  13. 10 Fannie and Freddie
  14. 11 Lehman Brothers
  15. 12 The Panic of 2008
  16. Glossary
  17. Notes
  18. Index