History lessons
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Herald Tribune You can't change history. But can you change the story? That is what I have learned in researching a three-part…
Banking’s Veil of Secrecy
By Harold Bubil Published: Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. -- Second of three parts Raymond Vickers knows banks. Unlike many historians, he has practical experience in his field…
Q&A: Raymond Vickers on Bank-examination Reports
Herald Tribune Published: Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Harold Bubil interviews Raymond Vickers, author of “Panic in Paradise,” about what he found in the bank-examination reports he used…
Crusading Historian Vickers is Still Battling His Detractors
Harold Tribune By Harold Bubil Published: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. LAST OF THREE PARTS Historian and banking attorney Raymond "Vic" Vickers expected that his book exposing fraud…
Historians fight it out on the battleground of ideas
Herald Tribune By Harold Bubil Real Estate Editor Published: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 7:31 a.m. Being a historian is not a profession for the weak of heart. After you've…
Causes of the bust
Herald Tribune Published: Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Florida's real estate boom, by any measure one of the biggest speculative investment bubbles in history, peaked in October 1925,…
Architect Addison Mizner: Villain or visionary?
By Harold Bubil Herold Tribune Published: Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. To be a real estate developer in the 1920s was to be a dreamer and a financial…
Closing the Door on One Scandal, Reopening Another Author: Bank Fraud Caused ’26 Land Bust
Miami Herald, The (FL) - April 23, 1995 Author: JACK WHEAT Herald Staff Writer History has ignored Charles Dawes, vice president of the United States under President Calvin Coolidge. Sometimes,…
Jesse Jones pounding his fist
Chairman of the RFC Jesse Jones pounding his fist to make a point to Chairman Henry B. Steagall and the House Banking and Currency Committee. (Courtesy, Library of Congress)
Charles Dawes
Charles Dawes gave his autographed photograph to his “friend” Wilson McCarthy, who acted like a hero worshiper of Dawes when he approved the unprecedented bailout package for the Dawes bank.…
