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100			_aBernanke, Ben, _e author.
245			_aThe courage to act : _ba memoir of a crisis and its aftermath / _cBen S. Bernanke.
246	3	0	_aMemoir of a crisis and its aftermath
250			_aFirst edition.
264			_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c[2015]
300			_axiv, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.
505			_aPrologue: I can still stop this... -- Main Street -- In the groves of academe -- Governor -- In the maestro's orchestra -- The subprime spark -- Rookie season -- First tremors, first response -- One step forward -- The end of the beginning -- Bear Stearns: Before Asia opens -- Fannie and Freddie: A long, hot summer -- Lehman: The dam breaks -- AIG: "It makes me angry" -- We turn to Congress -- "Fifty percent Hell no" -- A cold wind -- Transition -- From financial crisis to economic crisis -- Quantitative easing: The end of orthodoxy -- Building a new financial system -- QE2: False dawn -- Headwinds -- Taper capers -- Looking back, looking forward.
520			_aIn 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair 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. Here, Ben Bernanke pulls back the curtain on the tireless and ultimately successful efforts to prevent a mass economic failure. Working with two U.S. presidents and two Treasury secretaries, Dr. Bernanke and his colleagues used every Fed capability, no matter how arcane, to keep the U.S. 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, Dr. Bernanke gives readers a unique perspective on the American economy.
600			_aBernanke, Ben.
600		4	_aBernanke, Ben.
600		7	_aBernanke, Ben. _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst00189142
610	2	0	_aBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
610	2	4	_aBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
610	2	7	_aBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst00528659
611	2	7	_aGlobal Financial Crisis (2008-2009) _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst01755654
650			_aBanks and banking, Central _z United States.
650			_aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
650			_aGovernment economists _z United States _v Biography.
650			_aFinancial crises _z United States.
650			_aMonetary policy _z United States.
650			_aBanks and banking, Central. _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst00827036
650			_aFinancial crises. _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst00924607
650			_aGovernment economists. _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst00945306
650			_aMonetary policy. _2 fast _0 (OCoLC)fst01025230
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