Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Sorkin delivers a blow-by-blow reconstruction of the 2008 financial crisis from inside the rooms where Wall Street CEOs and Treasury officials scrambled to prevent systemic collapse. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, he documents the Lehman bankruptcy, the AIG bailout, and the TARP negotiations as a drama of personalities, leverage, and mutual dependence.

Published:: 2009
Pages:: 600

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In this collection, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System references 2 other books.

It draws on The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

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Sorkin's narrative of the crisis exemplifies Taleb's Black Swan thesis - a systemic collapse the models, regulators, and CEOs all deemed impossible until it arrived

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The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Sorkin's portraits of bank executives dismissing tail risk echo Taleb's Fooled by Randomness warning that Wall Street confuses low-probability events with zero-probability events

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Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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