After the Music Stopped

After the Music Stopped
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 528
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101605875
ISBN-13 : 1101605871
Rating : 4/5 (871 Downloads)

Book Synopsis After the Music Stopped by : Alan S. Blinder

Download or read book After the Music Stopped written by Alan S. Blinder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller "Blinder's book deserves its likely place near the top of reading lists about the crisis. It is the best comprehensive history of the episode... A riveting tale." - Financial Times One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons. Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and to think his way through to a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we can do from here—mired as we still are in its wreckage. With bracing clarity, Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own good—and too unregulated for the public good—experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. Things started unraveling when the much-chronicled housing bubble burst, but the ensuing implosion of what Blinder calls the “bond bubble” was larger and more devastating. Some people think of the financial industry as a sideshow with little relevance to the real economy—where the jobs, factories, and shops are. But finance is more like the circulatory system of the economic body: if the blood stops flowing, the body goes into cardiac arrest. When America’s financial structure crumbled, the damage proved to be not only deep, but wide. It took the crisis for the world to discover, to its horror, just how truly interconnected—and fragile—the global financial system is. Some observers argue that large global forces were the major culprits of the crisis. Blinder disagrees, arguing that the problem started in the U.S. and was pushed abroad, as complex, opaque, and overrated investment products were exported to a hungry world, which was nearly poisoned by them. The second part of the story explains how American and international government intervention kept us from a total meltdown. Many of the U.S. government’s actions, particularly the Fed’s, were previously unimaginable. And to an amazing—and certainly misunderstood—extent, they worked. The worst did not happen. Blinder offers clear-eyed answers to the questions still before us, even if some of the choices ahead are as divisive as they are unavoidable. After the Music Stopped is an essential history that we cannot afford to forget, because one thing history teaches is that it will happen again.


After the Music Stopped Related Books

After the Music Stopped
Language: en
Pages: 528
Authors: Alan S. Blinder
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-24 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

The New York Times bestseller "Blinder's book deserves its likely place near the top of reading lists about the crisis. It is the best comprehensive history of
Die Bücherdiebin
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

After the Music Stops
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Russell St. Bernard
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-08 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

When the Music Stopped
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Thomas J. Cottle
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

GET EBOOK

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.
Quick, Before the Music Stops
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Janet Carlson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-08 - Publisher: Crown

GET EBOOK

“I’ve been dancing steadily since that Valentine’s Day. I have taken countless lessons and classes, passed a professional certification exam, done several