Key Players In America's Financial CollapseHerb Sandler is
an American businessman. Together with his wife, Marion Sandler, Herb
purchased Golden West Savings and Loan in 1963 and created Golden West
Financial Corp, the parent company of World Savings Bank.
In the early 1980's, the Sandlers' World Savings Bank invented the
adjustable rate mortgage (ARM),
which allows borrowers to defer paying their interest on mortgages.
Their bank was sold to Wachovia, which quickly collapsed.