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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheila Bair |
| ISBN: | 9781451672480 1451672489 9781451672503 1451672500 |
| OCLC Number: | 805951345 |
| Description: | viii, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The golden age of banking -- Turning the Titanic -- The fight over Basel II -- The skunk at the garden party -- Subprime is "contained" -- Stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel : helping home owners, round one -- The audacity of that woman -- The Wachovia blindside -- Bailing out the boneheads -- Doubling down on Citi : bailout number two -- Helping home owners, round two -- Obama's election : the more thing change -- Helping home owners, round three -- The $100 billion club -- The care and feeding of Citigroup : bailout number three -- Finally saying no -- Never again -- It's all about the compensation -- The Senate's Orwellian debate -- Dodd-Frank implementation : the final stretch (or so I thought) -- Robo-signing erupts -- The return to Basel -- Too small to save -- Squinting in the public spotlight -- Farewell to the FDIC -- How Main Street can tame Wall Street -- It could have been different. |
| Responsibility: | Sheila Bair. |
Abstract:
The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the U.S. has faced since the Great Depression.
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