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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971440103321

Autore

England Robert Stowe

Titolo

Black box casino : how Wall Street's risky shadow banking crashed global finance / / Robert Stowe England

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2011

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

9798400619519

9786613255594

9781283255592

1283255596

9780313392900

0313392900

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

332/.042

Soggetti

Financial crises - United States

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Investment banking - United States

Mortgage backed securities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The mortgage meltdown -- The panic of 2007 -- Seeds of the disaster -- The race to the bottom -- The rise of private -- Wall Street's subprime CDO mania -- Fast money and high stakes -- American International Group -- Bear Stearns -- Fannie and Freddie -- Lehman Brothers -- The panic of 2008.

Sommario/riassunto

This cautionary tale explains how the murky and complex world of mortgage finance caused a global market meltdown-and offers new insights on how to create a stronger world of banking and mortgage finance.