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Well researched book full of many familiar names to anyone who pays attention to the news and politics.. Sorkin puts the puzzle pieces together to tell the disturbing story of the manipulations that occurred trying to keep major financial institutions from going under while at the same time individuals worked to stay out of the "dirt".
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Non-fiction--eh not so much. It's a nail-biting thriller that kept me immersed in a world I don't understand. Still, even though I never quite figured out who shot the sheriff, the players didn't either. Written non-technically by one of the NYTs top financial reporters, the book is full of conflict, competition, distrust and the old boy network in full play. In the end, however, some of the biggies actually managed to think about putting the country first. Not as spoiler -- but because some of
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I think this was really good. Some of the numbers and financial terms left my head spinning. Seems like Paulson and company saved our skins. Of course, many of those same cats allowed the country to get into the trouble in the first place. Having heard so many angry people complain about the policies of government over the past two + years, one would have thought what Paulson did to try to fix things would have taken place in the current administration. Yet the end of the previous administration
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Though we know the ending, Sorkin somehow manages to create suspense as we wait for the house of cards that is our financial system to collapse.
This was a well researched and detailed account of the near collapse of the financial market. I'm not in finance, so there were some parts of the book that I found dry, but overall Sorkin did a good job of making the information accessible to a layperson like me.
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Dec 06, 2013
Sean Quinn
marked it as to-read
