Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves Summary
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves Summary

Too Big to Fail is a non-fiction account of the financial crisis that hit the United States in 2008 which resulted in the implementation by the federal government of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which purchased bad assets and invested public money directly in financial institutions in an effort to stabilize the system.

In the span of a few months, the traditional structure of the American financial system was fundamentally...

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