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The Courage to Act a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath / Ben S. Bernanke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London w.w.Norton & Company LondonEdition: First editionDescription: xiv, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393247213
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.11092 / BER 23
LOC classification:
  • HB119.B46 A3 2015
Contents:
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.
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.
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bengaluru SIBMB-2F 332.11092 / BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SIBMB-B-010818

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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