High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle

Abstract

Preface Introduction Chronology How It Happened 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 The Lessons of the Piece 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 Postscript Appendix: Dynamics of a Broke S&L Selected Bibliography Index

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