United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
USA
Italy
Spain
More From Contributor
Stress Test: Reflections On Financial Crises
From the former Treasury Secretary the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the US economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great DepressionOn 26 January 2009 during the depths of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy F Geithner was sworn in by President Barack Obama as the seventy-fifth Secretary of the Treasury of the United States Now in a strikingly candid riveting and historically illuminating memoir Geithner takes readers behind the scenes during the darkest moments of the crisis Swift decisive and creative action was required to avert a second Great Depression but policy makers faced a fog of uncertainty with no good options and the risk of
catastrophic outcomes Stress Test Reflections on Financial Crises takes us inside the room explaining in accessible and forthright terms the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions that Geithner and others in the Obama administration made during the crisis and recovery He discusses the most controversial moments of his tenures at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Treasury including the harrowing weekend Lehman Brothers went bankrupt; the searing crucible of the AIG bonuses controversy; the development of his widely criticized but ultimately successful plan in early 2009 to end the crisis; the bracing fight for the most sweeping financial reforms in seventy years; and the lingering aftershocks of the crisis including high unemployment the fiscal battles and Europe's
repeated flirtations with the economic abyss Geithner also shares his personal and professional recollections of key players such as President Obama Ben Bernanke Hank Paulson and Larry Summers among others and examines the tensions between politics and policy that have come to dominate discussions of the US economy An insider's account of how the Obama administration saved the economy but lost the American people Stress Test reveals a side of Timothy Geithner that only few have seen
catastrophic outcomes Stress Test Reflections on Financial Crises takes us inside the room explaining in accessible and forthright terms the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions that Geithner and others in the Obama administration made during the crisis and recovery He discusses the most controversial moments of his tenures at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Treasury including the harrowing weekend Lehman Brothers went bankrupt; the searing crucible of the AIG bonuses controversy; the development of his widely criticized but ultimately successful plan in early 2009 to end the crisis; the bracing fight for the most sweeping financial reforms in seventy years; and the lingering aftershocks of the crisis including high unemployment the fiscal battles and Europe's
repeated flirtations with the economic abyss Geithner also shares his personal and professional recollections of key players such as President Obama Ben Bernanke Hank Paulson and Larry Summers among others and examines the tensions between politics and policy that have come to dominate discussions of the US economy An insider's account of how the Obama administration saved the economy but lost the American people Stress Test reveals a side of Timothy Geithner that only few have seen
Product Description
Reviews/Comments
Add New
Vouchers
No voucher codes found.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.
Denmark