The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath [Hardcover]

Revelatory&the book sheds light on many of the smaller dramas that hang over this crucial period of world economic history.Undoubtedly the best account we will ever have of how government and financial institutions dealt with what has come to be known as the Great Recession.A careful, detailed, and exceptionally clear justification for the Feds aggressive actions to avert another Great Depression and resuscitate the American economy.Bernankes insights are instructive about what went wrong and how to keep it from happening again.A fantastic and reasonably accessible introduction to the economic thought of a former Federal Reserve Chair.A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another catastrophe [like the Great Depression]&. Under Bernankes chairmanship, the Fed, whatever its pre-crisis mistakes, helped save the U.S. and the world from a disaster. Humanity should be grateful.A