Complicit : how greed and collusion made the credit crisis unstoppable / / Mark Gilbert.

"Reporter and editor Mark Gilbert plumbs the origins of the sub-prime debt crisis, tracing it back to 'a silent conspiracy of the well rewarded' in banking, real estate, trading, insurance, investing, politics, regulation, credit rating, law, and economic theory"--Provided by pub...

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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:182 p.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bubbles are for bathtubs. The real estate boom
  • Unsafe at any rating. CDOs and the companies that judged them
  • Priced for perfection. the financial gene pool economic Darwinism couldn't improve
  • Bubbles, bubbles everywhere. Global liquidity's search for a profitable home
  • Judgment or luck. The profits banks couldn't understand-or protect against
  • Knight in rusty armor. An ill-advised rescue helps show banks just how much value their collateralized debt has lost
  • The noose tightens. Frozen money markets confound central bankers, hurt consumers, and drive imploding investments back onto bankers' books
  • Central banks, unbalanced. Caught off guard, the financial authorities make up the rules as they go along
  • Et tu, money markets and municipals? The crunch catches vanilla investments
  • Giants fall. The credit crisis reaches its climax
  • Conclusions and policy prescriptions.