Contents:

Acknowledgments. Prologue “On the Verge”. Chapter 1 Bubble to Bubble. Greenspan’s Shock and Awe. Houses Built on Cow Dung. Chapter 2 Home Sweet Home. Opening Doors. An Industry Is Born. Subprime Returns. Chapter 3 The Subprime Machine. From Delivering Pizza to Delivering Mortgages. Living the Dream. Diving into Deep Trouble. Chapter 4 Eyes Wide Shut. A Warning Unheeded. A Dream No More. Chapter 5 The Great Enabler. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Hit the Scene. Fannie and Freddie Get a Timeout. Wall Street Takes Over. A Tsunami of Mortgages. From Ownit to Out of It. Back from the Grave. Chapter 6 Complicity. Moody’s the Money Maker. Repeat Customers. Chapter 7 The Securitization from Hell. The Making of a CDO. Tough to Kill. Turning “Crap into Triple-A”. From CDS to CDO. Insanity Sets In. Chapter 8 Narvik and Me. CDOs: An American Export. The Truth Revealed—But Does It Matter? Chapter 9 Mortgaging Merrill’s Future. Climbing Out of Poverty. A Strong Start. The Secret Weapon. Raking It In. Taking Big Risks. Chapter 10 A House of Cards. Digging for Gold. Building a Case. The Investment of a Lifetime. Chapter 11 And Then the Roof Caved In. The Wheels Coming Off. The Call. A Crisis Begins. The CDO Blues. Lights Out. Epilogue. A Note on Sources. Resources from CNBC. Index.

Summary:

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the U.S. government in letting that greed rule the day. Written by CNBC's David Faber, this book painstakingly details the truth of what really happened with compelling characters who offer their first-hand accounts of what they did and why they did it. Page by page, Faber explains the events of the previous seven years that planted the seeds for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He begins in 2001, when the Federal Reserve embarked on an unprecedented effort to help the economy recover from the attacks of 9/11 by sending interest rates to all time lows. Faber also gives you an up-close look at where the crisis was incubated and unleashed upon the world-Wall Street-and introduces you to insiders from investment banks and mortgage lenders to ratings agencies, that unwittingly conspired to insure lending standards were abandoned in the head long rush for profits. Based on two years of research, this book provides deep background into the current credit crisis Offers the insights of experienced professionals-from Alan Greenspan to prominent bankers and regulators-who were on the front lines Created by David Faber, the face of morning business news on CNBC, and host of the network's award winning documentaries From regulators who tried to stop this problem before it swung out of control to hedge fund managers who correctly foresaw the coming housing crash and profited from it, And Then the Roof Caved In shows you how the crisis we currently face came to be.

Author

David Faber, an Emmy, Peabody, and duPont Award winner, is the anchor and coproducer of CNBC's acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming as well as a contributor to CNBC's Squawk on the Street. He has been reporting on Wall Street and corporate America for over twenty-two years, sixteen of them as the foremost reporter at CNBC. Faber has broken numerous stories including the massive fraud at WorldCom and News Corp.'s hostile bid for Dow Jones. He was a founding member of CNBC's signature morning show, Squawk Box. David Faber (New York, NY), in addition to being an Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont award winner, is the anchor and co-producer of CNBC's acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming as well as a contributor to CNBC's Squawk on the Street. He joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor, where he covered corporate finance and global equity markets.  Faber is also the chief correspondent for CNBC's Business Nation, a monthly, one-hour newsmagazine, which features the stories behind the business headlines. Faber breaks news and provides in-depth analysis on a range of business topics for the network during his twice weekly Faber Report. In his 14 years at CNBC, Faber has broken many big financial stories including the massive fraud at WorldCom, the bailout of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, and Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited bid for Dow Jones. In November 2006, he presented the two-hour, Emmy award-winning, original documentary Big Brother, Big Business, which investigates the increasing number of ways ordinary Americans are monitored and affected by the encroaching world of surveillance and how this covert spying has become big business. Faber received the two most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism in 2005 when CNBC's two-hour documentary, "The Age of Wal-Mart," garnered both a Peabody Award and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism. He launched the network's long-form, original documentaries in 2003 with the Maxwell Award-winning and Emmy-nominated "The Big Heist: How AOL Took Time Warner." Faber followed "The Big Heist" with the acclaimed "The Big Lie: Inside the Rise and Fraud of WorldCom, which received a National Headliner Award and was used by the prosecution in the trial of WorldCom's Former CEO Bernard Ebbers. Faber's documentary The eBay Effect - Inside a Worldwide Obsession aired in June 2005. He is also author of The Faber Report (2002, Little, Brown).