Funny Money

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank the oil-and-gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered American''s banking industry. Recounting the whole amazing story Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what really happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma. Nowhere else did money flow in quite the same spantaneous fashion. This story of corporate America and its characters recounted in Singer''s vivid prose continues to resonate in the setting of today''s market.