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

For much of the past decade, the Federal Reserve and central banks have kept interest rates at record-low levels. That acted as a stimulus to the economy, and may have helped buoy employment and spending. But it also inflated the value of assets, making the affluent—those who owned homes or stocks—wealthier, while leaving savers with very little to show.