Make failure tolerable / George P. Shultz -- Financial reforms to end government bailouts as we know them / Paul Volcker -- Fifty years in the business : from Wall Street to the Treasury and beyond / Nicholas F. Brady -- Defining systemic risk operationally / John B. Taylor -- Lessons learned...

What caused the financial crisis -- What prolonged the crisis -- Why the crisis worsened dramatically a year after it began -- What went right in the two decades before the crisis -- Why a black swan landed in the money market in August 2007

Acknowledgements -- Preface to the 2019 edition -- Introduction -- Gambling with other people's money -- Did creditors expect to get rescued? -- What about equity holders? -- Heads : they win a ridiculously enormous amount : tails : they win just an enormous amount -- How creditor rescue and...

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. What Caused the Financial Crisis -- 2. What Prolonged the Crisis -- 3. Why the Crisis Worsened Dramatically a Year after it Began -- 4. What Went Right in the Two Decades before the Crisis -- 5. Why a Black...