The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire Book

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-10-31 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Press HC When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007. suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected . to public office They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks:. Ben Bernanke of the US Federal Reserve. Mervyn King of the Bank of England. and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank Over the next five years. they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars. pounds and euros to contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system. moving on a scale and with a speed that had no precedent.Neil Irwin's The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we've ever seen. a poker game in which the stakes have ...Read More