cover image Funny Money

Funny Money

Mark Singer, June Singer. Laurel Press, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-52576-9

An Oklahoma native and New Yorker writer, Singer tells the story of the Penn Square Bank, an Oklahoma City shopping-center bank whose 1982 multimillion dollar collapsebased on bad oil and gas loansthreatened the solvency of several national banks. This book ""does a brilliant job of explaining the fiasco,'' PW observed. (May)