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

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Kelleher had just finished giving a presentation on the firm’s finances, and it was not good. Charles Noski, a director and former chief financial officer of AT&T, asked him point-blank: “When do we run out of money?” Kelleher paused and then said somberly, “Well, depending on what happens Monday and Tuesday, it could be as early as middle of the week.”