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Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Oct 20, 2018richibi rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
this book feels nearly as long, 616 pages, as the ten years it talks about, from 2008 to now, and the road isn't at all easy, nor pleasant, acronyms abound, AIG, CDO, ECB, MOUSE, come up like road bumps, gravel, on an equally confounding bankers' jargon, economists' talk, that doesn't let up until the very last chapter, where it tells us where we're at with considerable insight, but should you manage it, some sense is made out of our present historical predicament, the clash between globalism and populism, the revolution, for better or for worse, we are presently living out