The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2013
An award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in this fast-paced, compelling, and gripping saga of greed and excess. During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crip-pling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial industry--even the entire country--lost its way as well. Written as compellingly as the finest fiction, The Lost Bank introduces readers to the regulators and the bankers, the home buyers and the lenders who together created the largest bank failure in American history. The result is a magisterial and gripping account of the incredible rise and the precipitous collapse of not only an institution but of trust, fortunes, and the marketplaces for risk across the world.
- ISBN:
- 9781451617931
- 9781451617931
- Category:
- Banking
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-08-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 212.72x139.7x33.02mm
- Weight:
- 0.41kg
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