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 · 15 Oct 2009 · 351pp · 102,379 words
Too Big to Fail TOO BIG TO FAIL The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves Andrew Ross Sorkin VIKING VIKING Published by the
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Thomsen, director, Division of Enforcement White House Joshua B. Bolten, chief of staff, Office of the President George W. Bush, president of the United States Too Big to Fail PROLOGUE Standing in the kitchen of his Park Avenue apartment, Jamie Dimon poured himself a cup of coffee, hoping it might ease his headache. He
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needs to be solved, so we can learn from our mistakes. This book is an effort to begin putting those pieces together. At its core Too Big to Fail is a chronicle of failure—a failure that brought the world to its knees and raised questions about the very nature of capitalism. It is
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Street and in Washington. In the end, this drama is a human one, a tale about the fallibility of people who thought they themselves were too big to fail. CHAPTER ONE The morning air was frigid in Greenwich, Connecticut. At 5:00 a.m. on March 17, 2008, it was still dark, save for
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. It had very little debt and some $40 billion in cash on hand. With a balance sheet of more than $1 trillion, it was simply too big to fail. Speaking to investors at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan in December 2007, Sullivan boasted that AIG was one of the five largest businesses in the
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-minute changes, knowing that he’d have little time to do so once he arrived in Moscow. “To address the perception that some institutions are too big to fail, we must improve the tools at our disposal for facilitating the orderly failure of a large, complex financial institution,” he planned to say. “As former
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Illinois National Bank and Trust. “We have a new kind of bank,” Stewart McKinney, U.S. representative from Connecticut, announced that year. “It is called ‘too big to fail.’ TBTF, and it is a wonderful bank.” The $4.5 billion government rescue plan that emerged was shaped in large part by Cohen. Cohen, who
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resolution regime for nonbanks.” “A stronger infrastructure would help to reduce systemic risk,” Bernanke noted. It would also mitigate moral hazard and the problem of “too big to fail” by reducing the range of circumstances in which systemic stability concerns might be expected by markets to prompt government intervention. A statutory resolution regime for
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rate, following money fund redemptions, deposits could be around the corner). In our view, a lack of confidence and forced consolidation into firms that are ‘too big to fail’ can’t be the final solution,” he wrote. “The world should really be concerned about this because if we continue to squeeze the financial system
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, but what if it had bet the wrong way? For better or worse, Goldman, like so many of the nation’s largest financial institutions, remains too big to fail. Could the financial crisis have been avoided? That is the $1.1 trillion question—the price tag of the bailout thus far. The answer to
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that encourage irresponsible risks, and a crackdown on rumormongers and the manipulation of stock and derivative markets—there will continue to be firms that are too big to fail. And when the next, inevitable bubble bursts, the cycle will only repeat itself. The financial industry had always been intended to be something of an
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, “Struggling to Keep Up as the Crisis Raced On,” New York Times, October 22, 2008. “policy by deal”: Simon Johnson, “Systemic Risk: Are Some Institutions Too Big to Fail and If So, What Should We Do About It?” Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services during hearing held July
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by Noam Chomsky · 2 Jan 1994 · 75pp · 22,220 words
kind of thing is going to happen as long as you have unregulated capital markets, which furthermore have a government insurance policy. It’s called “too big to fail”: if you get in trouble, the taxpayer will bail you out—policies that, of course, lead to underestimation of risk. Credit agencies already take into
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to financial services. This sector attracts a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest minds and technologies, in part because the government effectively guarantees “too big to fail” institutions. 18. Reform the patent system. Not only does it take years to issue good patents due to the backlog and shortage of qualified examiners
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caused by high-risk, high-yield loans, traded in financial markets around the world. National governments faced the collapse of key industries that had been ‘too big to fail’, and of banks whose liabilities were spread across the world and subject to forces over which the governments themselves had no control. Panic rescues and
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by Saifedean Ammous · 23 Mar 2018 · 571pp · 106,255 words
of matched maturity. In other words, there is no distinction between illiquidity and insolvency, and there is no systemic risk that could make any bank “too big to fail.” A bank that fails is the problem of its shareholders and lenders, and nobody else. Unsound money allows the possibility of mismatching maturity, of which
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by Ivan Krastev · 7 May 2017 · 100pp · 31,338 words
invasion, or any other catastrophe, with the exception of one farcical, unsuccessful coup. The collapse happened contrary to every expectation that the Soviet empire was too big to fail, too stable to collapse, and too nuked-up to be defeated and had survived too much turbulence to simply implode. As late as 1990, a
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a global market because the rest of the world could not catch up with the technological innovations to use these “perfect” devices. Rather than being too big to fail, Japan’s phones, developed in protected isolation from the challenges of the outside world, had become too perfect to succeed. Now it is Europe that
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by William Mougayar · 25 Apr 2016 · 161pp · 44,488 words
: can the blockchain give us Trust 2.0, a better form of trust that does not always depend on central intermediaries who may have become too big to fail, too bureaucratic to see risk, or too slow to change? Here are seven principles that we will need to believe in, if we are to
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a heavy-handed policy that actually amplified systemic risk, instead of reducing it. As a result, central counterparty clearinghouses have become a new class of “too big to fail” institutions, whereas, ironically, they were previously more widely distributed. In a 2012 New York Times article titled “Stabilization Will not Save Us,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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part of the electorate. If any inflated demands were in play, they came from banks that got into difficulties but managed to present themselves as ‘too big to fail’, as so important to the system that they deserved to be rescued politically, not least by their agents in the state apparatus such as Hank
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strict political conditions. Whether it can impose them is another matter, of course; governments, in particular, may also be tempted to speculate that they are ‘too big to fail’.4 Nor can anyone guarantee that supply-side policies will actually work: witness the four-year stagnation in the United States, the country where a
Because We Say So
by Noam Chomsky
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