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Description for FUNNY MONEY: THE WONDROUS TALE OF THE PENN SQUARE BANK, THE HIGH-ROLLING OIL-AND-GAS LOAN BROKER IN AN OKLAHOMA CITY SHOPPING CENTER WHOSE COLLAPSE STAGGERED AMERIC A'S BANKING COMMUNITY by Mark Singer: From "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 America's banking industry. Recounting the whole story and its colorful characters, Singer makes clear what actually happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma. Nowhere else did money flow quite the same spontaneous fashion. Show more