Ebook: The Chastening: inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system and humbled the IMF

Author's Note and Acknowledgments; · 1 · The Committee to Save the World; · 2 · Opening the Spigot; · 3 · Winnie the Pooh and the Big Secret; · 4 · Malignancy; · 5 · Sleepless in Seoul; · 6 · The Naysayers; · 7 · The Bosun's Mate; · 8 · Down the Tubes; · 9 · Getting to Nyet; · 10 · The Balanceof Risks; · 11 · Plumbing the Depths; · 12 · Stumbling Out; · 13 · Cooling Off; Notes; Index.;The breathtaking behind-the-scenes story of the nearly disastrous global financial crisis of the late 1990s and how the International Monetary Fund tried--and failed--to stem it.