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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves Summary & Study Guide Description
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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 changed, Sorkin claims, as many of the top financial institutions struggled to stay afloat while the assets upon which they had built a large business lost tremendous value. Lehman Brothers, one of the top brokerage firms, went into bankruptcy. Bear Stearns, another top brokerage, was saved when the JP Morgan bank purchased it with guarantees by the government. AIG, the world's largest insurance company, was also saved only with government assistance, and the home lending companies Fannie Mae...
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