Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804138613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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On his feet he might have stammered and wavered. No matter your political persuasion, you will find this book educational, enlightening, and interesting.” —Walter Isaacson “The country owes Tim Geithner great appreciation for his role in overcoming the financial crisis of 2008. He has now indebted it further with writing a thoughtful, very readable and informative account of the conduct of policy at the edge of disaster.” —Henry A. Geithner does something unusual: he engages in substance. With both insight and humility, plus a good dos
GEITHNER was the seventy-fifth secretary of the U.S. TIMOTHY F. He wrote this book as a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.From the Hardcover edition.. Department of the Treasury and previously served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"The detail is amazing, but not in the least boring" according to Barbara E. Goll. This book is user friendly, well written and well thought out. It shows that Obama chose his Secretary of the Treasury very wisely. The detail is amazing, but not in the least boring. It reads like a novel. Geithner was the exact right man for the job, already skilled and savvy in the knowledge of how to go about rescuing nations from economic crisis. This is well worth the read and impressive. Geithner emerges as. Another great view on the financial crisis Overall I really liked this book. While Tim Geithner is not an writer and his style is definitely not of a thriller, the portrait of the crisis from his view definitely contributes to the overall understanding of the financial crisis of 2008.This book should not be taken as "stand-alone" but read in the context of all the other ones out there about the crisis itself. It helps one to form their opinions in a clear . "It was a great story that made me feel like i was there" according to Amazon Customer. Tim Geithner presents a very personal account of the financial crisis and the aftermath. It was a great story that made me feel like i was there in the room as it happened. It can get technical at times but Tim helps you go through to understand. A must read for those wanting to understand the actors involves.
But in the end, Stress Test is a hopeful story about public service. Secretary Geithner is not a politician, but he has things to say about politics—the silliness, the nastiness, the toll it took on his family. In a candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, he takes readers behind the scenes of the crisis, explaining the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions he made to repair a broken financial system and prevent the collapse of the Main Street economy. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. He takes readers inside the room as the crisis began, intensified, and burned out of control, discussing the most controversial episodes of his tenures at the New York Fed and the Treasury, including the rescue of Bear Stearns; the harrowing weekend when Lehman Brothers failed; the searing crucible of the AI