Financial Boom and Gloom: The Credit and Banking Crisis of 2007-2009 and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)

The credit and banking crisis which hit the western world in 2007/2008 has and will continue to have far-reaching after-effects. At their core are Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Credit Default Swaos (CDSs), the main themes of this book.