Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Cri...
Onaran, Yalman / Bair, Sheila / Larkin, Pete This book will address and answer the key questions...What's a zombie bank? When losses of a financial institution exceed its paid-in capital, it's insolvent. Thanks to systemic deregulation in the last 30 years and cheap credit availability, banks in the U.S. and Europe borrowed more and more on a thin layer of equity, funding the explosive growth of their housing markets through securitized mortgages and piled many of the mortgage-related se...