TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernanke,Ben
TI  - The Courage to Act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath 
SN  - 9780393247213
AV  - HB119.B46 A3 2015
U1  - 332.11092 / BER 23
PY  - 0000///London
CY  - London
PB  - w.w.Norton & Company
KW  - Bernanke, Ben.
KW  - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
KW  - Banks and banking, Central
KW  - United States
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Government economists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -