Nothing Is Too Big to Fail: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "Too Clubby to Fail": Wall Street Banks Win, Thrifts and Community Banks Lose -- 2 Increased Risk Taking Due to Deregulation -- 3 Deregulation, Politics, and Criminal Prosecutions -- 4 The Four Major Waves of Change in the 1990s That Laid the Groundwork for the 2008 Financial Crisis -- 5 Washington Mutual in the Age of Consolidation of the Financial Industry -- 6 Record Profits and the Stunning Growth of Shadow Banking1 -- 7 Record Banking Profits and Growth, but There Is a Canary in the Mine -- 8 The Financial Crisis Hits -- 9 The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis -- 10 Part One: Investigations and Lawsuits: 2010 -- Part Two: Investigations and Lawsuites: 2011-2014 -- 11 The Fast Buildup of the Next Shadow Banking System -- 12 The Makings of the Next Financial Crisis -- 13 Recommendations to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis -- Afterword: COVID-19 Strikes -- Photo Gallery -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Timeline for Residential Home Lending -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors.