About this Book

Banktown is a tale of triumph and tragedy at Charlotte's big banks, told with the ground-zero insights of award-winning Charlotte Observer business reporter Rick Rothacker. Featuring a cast of ambitious CEOs, brash traders, and powerful government officials and humanized by accounts of sleep-deprived bankers analyzing multibillion-dollar deals in record time and borrowers belatedly realizing their adjustable-rate mortgages left them owing more after their monthly payments than before, this is the definitive account of how the financial crisis bruised the economy and the pride of one of the New South's brightest skylines. --Book Jacket.