Too Big to Fail
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Greed. Panic. Bailout. Rinse. Repeat.
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you want to understand exactly how the 2008 collapse happened and who made the decisions that caused it
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When the global economy started eating itself in 2008, the people responsible for feeding it were the same ones called to save it. Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail is a front-row seat to the grotesque theater of American capitalism: billionaires playing firefighter with a gasoline can. Read it to understand how the crash wasn’t an accident — it was the system working as intended.
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Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
