Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem—and Themselves Audiobook (Free)

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Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment accounts of how the greatest financial meltdown because the Great Despair developed into a global tsunami. In the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret conferences in South Korea, as well as the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the very most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling about Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to save lots of the FinancialS ystem—and Themselves with achievement and failing, ego and greed, and, eventually, the fate of the world’s economy.

“We’ve got to get some good foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal government Reserve of NY, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s economic climate would experience.

Through unprecedented access to the players involved, TOO LARGE to Fail re-creates all of the episode and turmoil, exposing neverdisclosed information and elucidating how decisions produced on Wall Street within the last 10 years sowed the seed products from the debacle. This true story isn’t just a look at banks that were “too large to fail,” it really is a real-life thriller with a solid of bold-faced brands who themselves believed they were too large to fail.