Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis
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Book Overview
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions about...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520219473
ISBN13:9780520219472
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:281 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The truth hurts
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book was well researched. I bought this book for the purpose of writing a research paper. However, it is an interesting read at the same time, very factual. Another book on this subject I would recommend is "S & L Hell by Kathleen Day
What everyone missed but payed for.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A rigourously detailed, cited, and sad indictment on one of the most significant domestic issues in recent U.S.A. history. Read how the bankers and politicians saw it coming, but instead of prevention, deliberatly increased the magnitude of the crisis to a level of such massive debt, that the American public would be forced to flip the bill instead of the criminals who are at fault.
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