***Stress Test* is the story of Tim GeithnerοΏ½s education in financial crises.** As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack ObamaοΏ½s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis since the Great
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
β Scribed by Geithner, Timothy F
- Book ID
- 107898084
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780804138598
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β¦ Synopsis
From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression
On January 26, 2009, during the depth of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in by President Barack Obama as the seventy-fifth Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Now, in a strikingly candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, Geithner takes readers behind the scenes during the darkest __ moments of the crisis. Swift, decisive, and creative action was required to avert a second Great Depression, but policy makers faced a fog of uncertainty, with no good options and the risk of catastrophic outcomes.
Stress Test : Reflections on Financial Crises takes us inside the room, explaining in accessible and forthright...
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