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Too Big to Fail
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Too Big to Fail (2009) (edit title/settings)

The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Author) (edit contributors)

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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a... read more

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From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, "Too Big to Fail" is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, "Too Big to Fail" is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy. “We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, "Too Big to Fail" re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.

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(Prologue) Standing in the kitchen of his Park Avenue apartment, Jamie Dimon poured himself a cup of coffee, hoping it might ease his headache.

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20 untitled chapters.

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  • Too Big To Fail: "Entities are considered to be "Too big to fail" by those who believe those entities are so central to a macroeconomy that their failure will be disastrous to an economy, and as such believe they should become recipients of beneficial financial and economic policies from governments and/or central banks"-from Business Dictionary.com

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This book is in Financial Crisis. (community list)

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  1. Andrew Ross Sorkin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 3, 2009
ISBN: 1846142865
Page Count: 352

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  • Library of Congress: HB3722 .S659 2009
  • Dewey: 330.9730931

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