Wall Street and the financial crisis
Subtitle: anatomy of a financial collapse : majority and minority staff report
By: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate
Publisher: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 639
Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises; Financial institutions; State supervision; Corrupt practices; Mortgage-backed securities
Notes: "April 13, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Background; title: High risk lending : case study of Washington Mutual Bank; title: Regulatory failure : case study of the Office of Thrift Supervision; title: Inflated credit ratings : case study of Moody's and Standards & Poor's; title: Investment bank abuses : case study of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.