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'The Courage To Act' signed by Ben S. Bernanke
- Item Number
- 180
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- 20 USD
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Item Description
Signed edition!
- The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
- Hardcover: 624 pages
- October 5, 2015
- Ben S. Bernanke (Author)
A New York Times Bestseller
An unrivaled look at the fight to save the American economy.
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of power.
There would be no time to celebrate.
The bursting of a housing bubble in 2007 exposed the hidden vulnerabilities of the global financial system, bringing it to the brink of meltdown. From the implosion of the investment bank Bear Stearns to the unprecedented bailout of insurance giant AIG, efforts to arrest the financial contagion consumed Bernanke and his team at the Fed. Around the clock, they fought the crisis with every tool at their disposal to keep the United States and world economies afloat.
Working with two U.S. presidents, and under fire from a fractious Congress and a public incensed by behavior on Wall Street, the FedâÂ?Â?alongside colleagues in the Treasury DepartmentâÂ?Â?successfully stabilized a teetering financial system. With creativity and decisiveness, they prevented an economic collapse of unimaginable scale and went on to craft the unorthodox programs that would help revive the U.S. economy and become the model for other countries.
Rich with detail of the decision-making process in Washington and indelible portraits of the major players, The Courage to Act recounts and explains the worst financial crisis and economic slump in America since the Great Depression, providing an insider’s account of the policy response.
16 pages of photographs
Item Special Note
Review
“Revelatory…the book sheds light on many of the smaller dramas that hang over this crucial period of world economic history.” (New York Times)
“A careful, detailed, and exceptionally clear justification for the Fed’s aggressive actions to avert another Great Depression and resuscitate the American economy.” (Washington Post)
“Bernanke’s insights are instructive about what went wrong and how to keep it from happening again.” (Los Angeles Times)
“A fantastic and reasonably accessible introduction to the economic thought of a former Federal Reserve Chair.” (Vox)
“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another catastrophe [like the Great Depression]…. Under Bernanke’s chairmanship, the Fed, whatever its pre-crisis mistakes, helped save the U.S. and the world from a disaster. Humanity should be grateful.” (Martin Wolf - The Financial Times)
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