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2020 reading challenge category: A book on a topic you know nothing about (the 2008 financial crisis)
A readable account of the 2008 financial crisis, even for those who have very little background knowledge about the situation. This is a people-based account rather than a numbers-based one, and sometimes the people are hard to keep track of, particularly when some of them are moving between agencies or companies. I would recommend ignoring the "cast of characters" at the beginning as some of the people are pretty irrelevant. For example, Hilary Clinton is listed, but the extent of her involvement is basically discussing swapping speaking positions at an engagement with someone actually involved in the crisis.
Also, this book needs some more copy editing. Missing or misplace quotation marks and commas abound, and in at least two instances a sentence is repeated verbatim in the next line or paragraph. But still, very informative!
A readable account of the 2008 financial crisis, even for those who have very little background knowledge about the situation. This is a people-based account rather than a numbers-based one, and sometimes the people are hard to keep track of, particularly when some of them are moving between agencies or companies. I would recommend ignoring the "cast of characters" at the beginning as some of the people are pretty irrelevant. For example, Hilary Clinton is listed, but the extent of her involvement is basically discussing swapping speaking positions at an engagement with someone actually involved in the crisis.
Also, this book needs some more copy editing. Missing or misplace quotation marks and commas abound, and in at least two instances a sentence is repeated verbatim in the next line or paragraph. But still, very informative!