How much drama can take place in boardrooms and on intra-agency phone conferences? Sheila Bair aims to find out in her financial-crisis memoir, “Bull by the Horns: Fighting to...
THE FIRST THING Barack Obama did as president was enact the stimulus. Two of his economic advisers, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, preceded the rollout of the $800 billion bill...
Neil Barofsky can be forgiven a little posturing. Early on in his short stint as Special Inspector General for TARP -- the bank bailouts -- he realized that he had no choice but to...
The financial crisis of late 2008 has been attributed to any number of causes. But we don't want complex stories, we want simple ones that allow us to affix blame. So most...
