Ebook: The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

Prologue: 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.