The Fire Last Time

THE TRAGEDY OF THIS slim, self-satisfied little memoir about the 2007–2008 financial crisis is not what it gets wrong. Indeed, four of its central arguments are important and exactly right: (1) that extraordinary measures and creative innovation and improvisation saved the entire financial system from melting down; (2) that without such interventions the crash would […] The post The Fire Last Time appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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