Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

Contents

• PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS Read →
• Subcommittee Investigation p. 2 Read →
• Rise of Too-Big-To-Fail U.S. Financial Institutions p. 16 Read →
• High Risk Mortgage Lending p. 18 Read →
• Credit Ratings and Structured Finance p. 27 Read →
• Investment Banks p. 33 Read →
• Market Oversight p. 37 Read →
• Government Sponsored Enterprises p. 42 Read →
• Administrative and Legislative Actions p. 44 Read →
• Financial Crisis Timeline p. 46 Read →
• CASE STUDY OF WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK p. 49 Read →
• Securitizing Delinquency-Prone and Fraudulent Loans. At times, WaMu selected p. 52 Read →
• High Risk Lending Strategy p. 59 Read →
• Shoddy Lending Practices p. 76 Read →
• Customer Satisfaction (Total HL) – 55%" p. 113 Read →
• Polluting the Financial System p. 117 Read →
• Destructive Compensation Practices p. 144 Read →
• WALK-UP MUSIC FOR DAVID SCHNEIDER DAVID SCHNEIDER p. 147 Read →
• Preventing High Risk Lending p. 156 Read →
• CASE STUDY OF THE OFFICE OF THRIFT SUPERVISION p. 162 Read →
• Subcommittee Investigation and Findings of Fact p. 163 Read →
• Ineffective and Demoralized Regulatory Culture. The Washington Mutual case p. 166 Read →
• Washington Mutual Examination History p. 170 Read →
• Regulatory Failures p. 209 Read →
• Preventing Regulatory Failures p. 240 Read →
• CASE STUDY OF MOODY'S AND STANDARD & POOR'S p. 244 Read →
• Inaccurate Rating Models. From 2004 to 2007, Moody's and S&P used credit p. 246 Read →
• Mass Credit Rating Downgrades p. 260 Read →
• Ratings Deficiencies p. 268 Read →
• "PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL - S&P DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY p. 303 Read →
• Preventing Inflated Credit Ratings p. 314 Read →
• CASE STUDY OF GOLDMAN SACHS AND DEUTSCHE BANK p. 319 Read →
• Using Naked Credit Default Swaps. Goldman Sachs used credit default swaps p. 378 Read →
• CDO Marks p. 504 Read →
• Timberwolf I p. 542 Read →
• Using Poor Quality Loans in Securitizations. Goldman provided securitization p. 604 Read →
• Preventing Investment Bank Abuses p. 637 Read →
• Notes not linked in the text Read →

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