The courage to act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

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The courage to act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

Title remainder

a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

Statement of responsibility

Ben S. Bernanke

Title variation

Memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

Creator

• trueBernanke, Ben

Author

• trueBernanke, Ben

Subject

• trueMonetary policy
• trueRecession (Economics)
• trueUnited States -- Economic conditions
• trueMonetary policy -- United States
• trueBanks and banking
• Banks and banking, Central -- United States
• Bernanke, Ben
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
• trueEconomic policy
• trueFederal reserve banks
• trueFinancial crises
• trueFinancial crises -- United States
• trueFinancial institutions
• trueGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
• trueGovernment economists -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however-the burst of the housing bubble in 2007 set off a domino effect that would bring the global financial system to the brink of meltdown. In The Courage to Act, Ben Bernanke pulls back the curtain on the tireless and ultimately successful efforts to prevent a mass economic failure. Working with two US presidents and two Treasury secretaries, Bernanke and his colleagues used every Fed capability, no matter how arcane, to keep the US economy afloat. From his arrival in Washington in 2002 and his experiences before the crisis, to the intense days and weeks of the crisis itself, and through the Great Recession that followed, Bernanke gives readers an unequalled perspective on the American economy. This narrative will reveal for the first time how the creativity and decisiveness of a few key leaders prevented an economic collapse of unimaginable scale

Writing style

• trueAccessible

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

332.11

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult