Introduction -- Promoter-bankers: Promoters in paradise -- Capturing the regulators -- Mizner bank -- Regulatory complicity: Official deceit -- Indictment of Florida?s Comptroller -- Resignation of Georgia?s superintendent of banks -- Aftermath: Indictments, Bankruptcies, and lawyers: Mad banker -- System of protection -- Friends of Vice-president Dawes -- Senatorial privilege -- Defeat of Ernest Amos -- Epilogue -- About the author
Summary
A comprehensive study of bank loan failures during the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s. Using previously sealed bank records, Vickers demonstrates that virtually every bank failure in Florida during the 1920s involved insider abuse, conscious conspiracy to defraud, or both. The ominous parallel with the savings and loan disaster of the 1980s does not go unnoticed
Analysis
Banking History
Florida
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index
