The S&l Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation

by Lawrence J. White

Book Overview

Many Americans have viewed the S&L crisis as the ultimate example of greed's pervasiveness in our society. Yet the personalities that have dominated the news have obscured the real issues behind the worst debacle in our nation's financial history.
Surveying the modern course of the thrift industry, from the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932 to the current efforts at restructuring, Lawrence J. White addresses the essential questions of the S&L...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067339
• ISBN13: 9780195067330
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"