Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-300) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue. Advertisements for himself -- The loan man -- Racketeers and suckers -- Slipping through your fingers -- Sowing grief -- The port of missing men -- Orphans in the storm -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic?boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years?and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols?s family?an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center of Frank Capra?s 1946 movie, It?s a Wonderful Life. In a narrative filled with colorful characters and profound insights into the American past, Shortfall is also the essential backstory to more recent financial crises, from the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s and 1990s to the subprime collapse of 2008.
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