High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle

Fixed Rates In A Volatile World -- How Insured S & Ls Fail -- Dick Pratt Figures Out How To Run A Bankrupt Federal Insurance Fund -- The False Spring Of 1983 -- Real Estate Lending 101 -- Permissive Loan Fee Accounting : The Linchpin -- Mammon Against The God Of Home Ownership -- Ed Gray Tries To Cope And The World Goes Galloping By -- The Big Texas Disaster -- The Laws Trash The Trash -- Silverado, Lincoln And Centrust -- The Junk Bond Connection -- Fraud And Misconduct 101 -- Wall Street Remakes The Mortgage Business -- Politics As Usual : Everybody Fiddles While The Fslic Burns -- Danny Wall And The 1988 Deals -- Firrea -- What Caused How Much Of The Losses? -- High Rollers -- Evaluating Deregulation -- Because Banks Are Where The Money Is -- The Importance Of Counting -- Avoid Complexity That No One Can Understand -- Supervision And Enforcement -- Regulation Can't Tame Technology Or Market Forces -- Deposit Insurance Reform -- The Future Of Thrift Institutions -- Appendix : Dynamics Of A Broke S & L. Martin Lowy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [311]-316) And Index. Library Journal Best Books New York Times Book Review Notable Books Of The Year