After the music stopped : the financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead /
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history--books written quickly to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and create a truly comprehensive and cohere...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- It happened here. What's a nice economy like you doing in a place like this?
- Finance goes mad. In the beginning-- ; The house of cards ; When the music stopped ; From Bear to Lehman : inconsistency was the hobgoblin ; the Panic of 2008
- Picking up the pieces. Stretching out the TARP ; Stimulus, stimulus, wherefore art thou, stimulus? ; The attack on the spreads
- The road to reform. It's broke, let's fix it : the need for financial reform ; Watching a sausage being made ; The Great Foreclosure Train Wreck ; The backlash
- Looking ahead. No exit? : getting the Fed back to normal ; The search for a fiscal exit ; The big aftershock : the European debt crisis ; Never again : legacies of the crisis.