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CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PROLOGUE I Can Still Stop This . . .
PART I. PRELUDE
CHAPTER 1. Main Street
CHAPTER 2. In the Groves of Academe
CHAPTER 3. Governor
CHAPTER 4. In the Maestro’s Orchestra
CHAPTER 5. The Subprime Spark
CHAPTER 6. Rookie Season
PART II. THE CRISIS
CHAPTER 7. First Tremors, First Response
CHAPTER 8. One Step Forward
CHAPTER 9. The End of the Beginning
CHAPTER 10. Bear Stearns: Before Asia Opens
CHAPTER 11. Fannie and Freddie: A Long, Hot Summer
CHAPTER 12. Lehman: The Dam Breaks
CHAPTER 13. AIG: “It Makes Me Angry”
CHAPTER 14. We Turn to Congress
CHAPTER 15. “Fifty Percent Hell No”
CHAPTER 16. A Cold Wind
CHAPTER 17. Transition
CHAPTER 18. From Financial Crisis to Economic Crisis
PART III. AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 19. Quantitative Easing: The End of Orthodoxy
CHAPTER 20. Building a New Financial System
CHAPTER 21. QE2: False Dawn
CHAPTER 22. Headwinds
CHAPTER 23. Taper Capers
EPILOGUE: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON SOURCES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
AUTHOR'S NOTE
In all crises, there are those who act and those who fear to act. The Federal Reserve, born of the now little-known Panic of 1907, failed its first major test in the 1930s. Its leaders and the leaders of other central banks around the world remained passive in the face of ruinous deflation and financial collapse. The result was a global Great Depression, breadlines, and 25 percent unemployment in the United States, and the rise of fascist dictatorships abroad. Seventy-five years later, the Federal Reserve—the institution that I have dedicated the better part of my adult life to studying and serving—confronted similar challenges in the crisis of 2007–2009 and its aftermath. This time, we acted.
The title of this book was inspired by my colleagues at the Federal Reserve, policymakers and staff alike. When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, they mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary, often in the face of bitter criticism and condemnation. We were joined in the fight by others in government—the leaders and staff of the Treasury Department under two administrations deserve special note—as well as many of our counterparts at central banks and finance ministries around the world. I am grateful to all of them and proud to have been part of the global effort to contain the most dangerous economic crisis of our time.
I am most grateful, however, to my wife, Anna, the love ............

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