The courage to act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath / Ben S. Bernanke.
Bernanke, Ben, author.
2015
HB119.B46 A3 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The courage to act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath / Ben S. Bernanke.
Author
Bernanke, Ben, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393247213 (hardcover)
039324721X (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xiv, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
HB119.B46 A3 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.1/1092 B
Summary
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.
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I can still stop this ...
Prelude. Main Street ; In the groves of academe ; Governor ; In the maestro's orchestra ; The subprime spark ; Rookie season
The crisis. First tremors, first response ; One step forward ; The end of the beginning ; Bear Stearns : before Asia opens ; Fannie and Freddie : a long, hot summer ; Lehman : the dam breaks ; AIG : "It makes me angry" ; We turn to Congress : "Fifty percent hell no" ; A cold wind ; Transition ; From financial crisis to economic crisis
Aftermath. Quantitative easing : the end of orthodoxy ; Building a new financial system ; QE2 : false dawn ; Headwinds ; Taper capers
Looking back, looking forward.

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