'The Financial Crisis of 2008 is essential reading for banking, investment, and insurance firm leadership but also for investors, analysts, economists, and students of financial and investment history. It depicts how widespread risk-taking at the firm level can morph into systemwide near collapse and how the mantra of homeownership for all must be considered in light of the associated financial risks and undisciplined creation of asset-backed securities. The book is required reading for a generation.' Janet J. Mangano, Enterprising Investor
Introduction; 1. The Heritage of the Hi-Tech Bubble; 2. The Stretch for Higher Returns 2004–2006; 3. The Impending Storm – 2007; 4. The Crisis – 2008; 5. What Caused the Crisis?; 6. The Initial Obama Administration 2009; 7. Recovery 2010–2012; 8. Epilogue 2012–2016.