{"product_id":"reckless-endangerment-how-outsized-ambition-greed-and-corruption-led-to-economic-armageddon","title":"Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eReckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGretchen Morgenson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805091205\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eTimes Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"Washington Post\" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011\u003cbr\u003eOne of \"The Economist\"'s 2011 Books of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"New York Times's\" Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Reckless Endangerment,\" Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of \"The New York Times, \" 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorgenson 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 benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Times Books","offers":[{"title":"Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon | Gretchen Morgenson | Hardcover | 9780805091205 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1784500","offer_id":67623862468760,"sku":"1784500","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61IXXMVKQJL.jpg?v=1790968435","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/reckless-endangerment-how-outsized-ambition-greed-and-corruption-led-to-economic-armageddon","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}