Inside the FDIC : thirty years of bank failures, bailouts, and regulatory battles

Inside the FDIC : thirty years of bank failures, bailouts, and regulatory battles / John F. Bovenzi.

"Banks are held out as symbols of stability, safe places to put your money. Yet since the early 1980's over 3,400 banks have failed, an average of about two a week for a period exceeding thirty years. These bank failures aren't steady, regular, and easily predictable events. Periods o...

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Main Author: Bovenzi, John F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2015.
Subjects:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Deposit insurance > United States.
Bank failures > United States.
Banks and banking > Government policy > United States.
Banks and banking > State supervision > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Banks & Banking.
Bank failures
Banks and banking > Government policy
Banks and banking > State supervision
Deposit insurance
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • IndyMac
  • The 1980s: booms, busts, and bailouts
  • Liquidation
  • Credit crunch
  • Foreclosure prevention
  • "Is this the moron who closed Meritor?"
  • Transition and the power of the federal government
  • Subprime behavior
  • Leadership matters
  • Save Money, live better
  • Too big to fail
  • "I thought we were all in this together"
  • Going forward.

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