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

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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in The usa’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true at the back of-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner place of job 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 women and men in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, in the long run, 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 get admission to to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all of the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the last decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story isn’t just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” this can be a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.

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