Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon

from daguelibrary

For anyone puzzling over where blame lies for the financial meltdown of the late summer of 2008, this is a book to read. The answer might be surprising. Gretchen Morgenson, the principal author, is a business and financial editor and a columnist for The New York Times. The book is a detailed acco...

from RalphLagana

This is a quality account of how the 2008 market collapse occurred and demonstrates, without question, that our government is unable to protect it's people. There are multiple instances laid out in the book where well intentioned politicians tried to enact legislation to protect the population fr...

from kristenembers

A very readable account of the lead up to the housing bubble and 2007 mortgage melt down that led to the 2008 collapse of the financial markets. The sad thing is that so many of the individuals involved/responsible for the fiasco are still in positions of power. One of the few books about the cri...

from kristenembers

A very readable account of the lead up to the housing bubble and 2007 mortgage melt down that led to the 2008 collapse of the financial markets. The sad thing is that so many of the individuals involved/responsible for the fiasco are still in positions of power. One of the few books about the cri...