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Back From The Brink
In the summer of late 2007 shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall causing a run on the bank - the first since the Great Depression. Northern Rock was only the first: in the ensuing months Alistair Darling stood firm in the eye of this perfect storm - all over the world financial institutions thought too big to fail were falling prey to the lethal toxicity of the US sub-prime mortgage market. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of one thousand days of crisis. As Chancellor Alistair Darling sanctioned the GBP37bn bailouts of RBS and HBoS just minutes before their cash machines would have ceased to function; at the 11th hour he prevented Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers telling US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson that he wouldnt allow British banks to import Americas
economic cancer; he used controversial legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from the UK. From all night meetings at the White House to confrontations with the titans of international banking and fractions relations with Gordon Brown Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few.
economic cancer; he used controversial legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from the UK. From all night meetings at the White House to confrontations with the titans of international banking and fractions relations with Gordon Brown Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few.
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