[eBook Code] Senseless Panic (eBook Code, 1st)

Foreword ix

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