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Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse (Cosimo Reports) Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 2011

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After a two-year investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, their report, Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse was released in April 2011. This is the most damning official report to date on Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. It describes the wheeling and dealing of bankers and others who benefited from the housing bubble while impoverishing the rest of America. It also offers four very clear causes of the financial crisis and, last but not least, it names culprits: - High risk mortgage loans by commercial banks were "the fuel that ignited the financial crisis" (describing the case study of Washington Mutual Bank, the sixth largest commercial bank at the time of its failure in September, 2008 ) - Failures by regulators "set the stage for mortgage loan losses that were a proximate cause of the financial crisis" (describing the case study of the Office of the Thrift Supervision, which was closed in 2010 and whose operations folded into the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency); - Inaccurate AAA credit ratings by the two largest credit rating agencies "constituted a key cause of the financial crisis" (describing Moody's and Standard & Poor's conflicts of interest while both had a quasi-monopoly position in the market for credit ratings); - Investment bank abuses: "The Investment banks that engineered, sold, traded, and profited from mortgage-related structured finance products were a major cause of the financial crisis" (describing case studies of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank). This report and its detailed case studies are a must-read for policymakers, politicians, justice officials, bankers, journalists, academics and concerned citizens in order to understand what brought the economy to the brink of destruction. The U.S. SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS (PSI) is a bi-partisan team of senators that deals with Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and is currently headed by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Formerly known as the Committee on Government Operations, PSI is the oldest subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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July 1, 2011
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1616405465
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cosimo Reports; Illustrated edition (July 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 666 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616405465
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616405465
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.93 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.34 x 9 inches

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Author of Hidden Credit Repair Secrets

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2012

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It can be very helpful to read this book to know the progress of the Senate's investigation regarding this financial crisis that is happening from the Year 2008 in the America. You can see and appreciate their efforts to strengthen and protect the Country against the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future. And most of all, it contains the causes that contributed to the crisis and the U.S. financial system. Mark , author of Hidden Credit Repair Secrets.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2013

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Want to know why everyone is broke? How the largest crash since the Great Depression actually happened? Read this book. These aren't political talking points, speculation, or arguments over schools of economic thought. This is the no punches pulled, cited and sourced reasons for the collapse and recommendations how to avoid them in the future. Written jointly by both majority and minority leaders in the house and senate over a 4 year period, this book is apolitical. Should be required reading material for every entry level economics class today or required before anyone gives a lay opinion on the crisis.

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Boyd Hartman

The Ineptness of Big Government Social Engineering

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The report is a total white wash of the Carter and Clinton administrations involvement with the Community Reinvestment Act which Act stimulated not only the housing bubble, but turned over the monitoring of the system to ACORN and other community organizations. It was a stiff arm to the banking system that coerced the banks into extending credit to unworthy applicants all in the name of political correctness and social engineering. The bankers and speculators were giving license to engage in unethical, fraudulent practices when the government agencies charged with protecting the public took a powder. The report at least exposes that portion of the government's involvement. See my pending book OBAMANOMICS AND THE NEW SOCIAL ORRDER for a completer review of the report. Boyd Hartman

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David Sander

Too specific

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The content is easy to read but the subject is too focused on WaMu and Long Beach Mortgage. While these two may have played a big part in initiating the problem, certainly the entire banking industry played along but the report fails to expand on this.

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Marc Grenier

A decent report on the 2008 financial crisis

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2013

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The is a federal report regarding the 2008 financial crisis and what lead up to it. Although it's rather long winded, I still found it rather interesting.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2012

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Mary had a little lamb and his fleece was white as snow and everywhere mary went her lamb was sure to go.

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CtotheO

For once - a Government report worth reading

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This is actually a fantastic documentation of the events that created the largest financial crisis in American History. Few people truly understand the events that culminated in the fall of 2008, and this document provides an in-depth look at how the hallways of the Government saw the unfolding crisis.

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Carl F. Cartini

wall street & the financial crisis

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an easy read outlining the causes and affects of the sub prime melt down; a followup by the senate sub committee identifying the lingering worldwide effects would document the real damage to economies and related social unrest.

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William Keogh

What really happen on Wall Street.

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This is the 'real McCoy' it states categorically exactly what happened. It finds that the so called 'market orientated' system failed (and will fail again). This Report should be required reading..Only an American open Government could produce this.

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