The courage to act a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however -- the burst of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bernanke, Ben, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company [2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : I can still stop this...
  • Main Street
  • In the groves of academe
  • Governor
  • In the maestro's orchestra
  • The subprime spark
  • Rookie season
  • 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
  • Quantitative easing : the end of orthodoxy
  • Building a new financial system
  • QE2 : false dawn
  • Headwinds
  • Taper capers
  • Looking back, looking forward.