At the New York Times, Neil Irwin on the 10th anniversary of the financial collapse
Neil Irwin was part of the NY Times' special coverage of the 2008 financial collapse. Read his piece: "The Policymakers Saved the Financial System. And America Never Forgave Them."
❝ It’s hard to overstate how deeply Americans despised their government’s response to the global financial crisis. It has helped shape the last decade of American politics, fueling distrust of powerful institutions and speeding a drift toward ideological extremes.
But for all that anger, the engineers of the American crisis response got the economics mostly correct, and more right than most of those — including leading economic thinkers and prominent politicians — who were second-guessing them. [NYTimes.com]
| NEIL IRWIN is a Senior economic correspondent at the New York Times and the bestselling author of The Alchemists. Watch him talk about understanding the economy below, and learn more about booking Neil for your next event today. |
