Description

Rating: ****

Tags: General, United States, History, Business & Economics, Economics, Finance, Economic History, Financial crises, Economic Conditions, Global Financial Crisis; 2008-2009, 21st Century, Banks and banking, Financial crises - United States - History - 21st century, Lang:en

Publisher: Penguin Group

Added: February 7, 2019

Modified: November 5, 2021

Summary

A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington. In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters-delivers the first definitive blow- by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.