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Reckless Endangerment How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time

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ISBN-10: 1250008794

ISBN-13: 9781250008794

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner

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In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner - who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records - Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco. Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was…    
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Book details

List price: $20.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.15" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Gretchen Morgenson is the market watch columnist for The New York Times and author of Forbes Great Minds of Business.

Gretchen Morgensonis a business reporter and columnist atTheNew York Times, where she also serves as assistant business and financial editor. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. Prior to joining theTimesin 1998, she worked as a broker at Dean Witter in the 1980s, and as a reporter atForbes,Worth, andMoneymagazines. She lives with her husband and son in New York City.Joshua Rosneris a managing director at the independent research consultancy Graham Fisher and Company and advises regulators and institutional investors on housing and mortgage- finance-related issues.