Senseless panic
Subtitle: how Washington failed America and will again
By: William M. Isaac
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780470640364
Description: In this book, William Isaac, who headed the FDIC during the financial crisis of the 1980s, describes what was different about the 2008 crisis that allowed the failure of a comparative handful of institutions to nearly shut down the worldwide financial system.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Home alone; title: The early years (1978-81); title: The savings bank and S&L crises; title: Penn square fails; title: The butcher empire collapses; title: Deposit insurance reform/ tackling Wall Street; title: Continental Illinois topless; title: Preparing to leave; title: Lessons learned; title: Policy mistakes : 1989 through 2007; title: The subprime mortgage crisis; title: SEC and FASB blunders; title: Schizophrenic failure resolution; title: The $700 billion bailout; title: Never again.