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...

"Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression in 2008 when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a global panic, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other agencies took extraordinary measures to contain the damage and steady the...