The End of Wall Street
The End of Wall Street goes way back on the country’s account of the biggest financial collapse, mortgage bubble, and the government’s unparalleled response to these. With 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, the author unveils the full story of the end of Wall Street as we knew it. This book is equipped with extensive discussions of liquidity and capital, that is said to be the origin of the crises. The End of Wall Street is a combination of significant analysis and considerable narrative, highlighting the importance of being adequately capitalized.
“Lowenstein, a magnificent business writer, creates an almost novelistic accounting of the all-too-real 2008 financial collapse…. Lowenstein has a pitch-perfect sense of the Street's monumental recklessness.”
—Time
“Think of Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street as a tuition-free class in 21st-century U.S. macroeconomics... The End of Wall Street debunks the notion that no one could have seen the economic catastrophe coming.”
—USA Today
“The End of Wall Street is a calm, reasoned, and often witty tour of the current financial landscape and how it got that way.”
—Philadelphia Observer
“In the flood of new books about the financial crisis, Roger Lowenstein's is a standout. Lowenstein, a highly accomplished financial journalist, lays out what may be the best explanation yet of the recent crash—and as good a prediction as any on what happens next.”
—Barron’s
"Lowenstein’s strong knowledge of the source material and flair for the dramatic and doomsday title should draw readers who still wonder what went wrong and how."
—Publishers Weekly
“Lowenstein does a great job of explaining…in understandable terms that unobtrusively avoids the injection of emotion and politics.”
—Booklist
“Over the past year, there has been a steady stream of books trying to make sense of the crisis. The latest, and perhaps the most accessible and even-handed, is Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street."
—Washington Post
"The End of Wall Street is a good book: witty, well-written, heavily researched and often dramatic.”
—Associated Press/Huffington Post
“A veteran financial/business journalist examines the past three years of economic collapse, chronicling actions and inactions from dozens of villains and a few heroes…A well-delineated chronicle likely to cause readers to ask who put the clowns in charge of the circus, and why aren’t they confined to prison cells.”
—Kirkus