On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

Synopsis of On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

«On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System» is Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s first-person account.

Henry M. Paulson Jr., former executive at Goldman Sachs, recounts the 2008 financial crisis in the first person as US Treasury Secretary. The work shows the negotiations and decisions against the clock to prevent the collapse of entities such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG, alongside Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and George W. Bush.

Published by Business Plus in 2010, it is a 496-page hardcover written in English.

For readers interested in economics, finance and recent US political history.