Financial Meltdown or Just another "Crisis"

The Housing Bubble.  How does it measure up.  My favorite reference is a little monograph titled "Bank Failures in Mature Economies" put out by the Basal Bank of International Settlements.  Or just BIS.  This covers a lot of ground

• The Herstatt crisis in Germany
  
• The Banking Crisis in Norway
• Bank Failures in Spain
• The Swiss Case
• UK Bank of Credit and Commerce International
• UK Barings
• US The Savings and Loan crisis
• US Continental Illinois National Bank: the pitfalls of illiquidity
• US Bank of New England: the perils of real estate lending
• US The collapse of sub-prime lenders - sneak preview
• The Banking Crisis in Norway

More to come.