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New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions...
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions...
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Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can't reach them; savings groups can. In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short-term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings groups form and function and how little 'outside' support...
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An investigator tells the inside story of the 1980s savings-and-loan scandal and what we can do today to prevent future frauds: "Merits a wide readership." -Journal of Economic Issues
In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs-in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries-use to defraud companies for their personal gain....
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The New Press
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Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family; an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center of Frank Capra's 1946 movie, It's a Wonderful Life. In a narrative filled with colorful characters and profound insights into the American past, Shortfall is also...
12) Building societies year book: official handbook of the National association of building societies
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1uuu
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English
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Dept. of the Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision
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"This Bulletin sets forth the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) policy with respect to the review of the integrity and competency of persons or entities applying to acquire control of a savings institution or savings and loan holding company, organize a new savings institution, or to serve in a management position in which they would have the ability to influence the management, policies or business operations of a savings and loan holding company....
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U.S. Government Printing Office
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1969.
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And recommendations / Irwin Friend -- An empirical analysis of the savings and loan industry / Phoebus J. Dhrymes and Paul J. Taubman -- The financial soundness of savings and loan associations / James E. Walter -- The liquidity of the savings and loan industry / Paul H. Cootner -- An analysis of Illinois savings and loan associations which failed in the period 1963-1968 / H. Robert Bartell, Jr.