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Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed AmericaISBN: 978-1-118-47319-1
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June 2012
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Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Part One: No Calm Before the Storm 1
Chapter 1 Home Alone 3
Chapter 2 The Early Years (1978 –1981) 13
Chapter 3 The Savings Bank and S&L Crises 22
Chapter 4 Penn Square Fails 29
Chapter 5 The Butcher Empire Collapses 47
Chapter 6 Deposit Insurance Reform/Tackling Wall Street 53
Chapter 7 Continental Illinois Topples 64
Chapter 8 Preparing to Leave 86
Chapter 9 Lessons Learned 92
Part Two: Here We Go Again 99
Chapter 10 Policy Mistakes—1989 through 2007 101
Chapter 11 The Subprime Mortgage Problem 113
Chapter 12 SEC and FASB Blunders 118
Chapter 13 Schizophrenic Failure Resolution 131
Chapter 14 The $700 Billion Bailout 148
Chapter 15 Never Again 161
Afterword 177
Epilogue 180
Authors’ Notes on Sources 208
About the Authors 209
Index 211
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