The Foreign Policy Association hosts Andrew Ross Sorkin, the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, columnist and assistant editor of business and finance news at The New York Times, to talk about his new book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves.
Bio
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Times's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. Mr. Sorkin, a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, is also the editor of DealBook (nytimes.com/dealbook), an online daily financial report he started in 2001. In addition, Mr. Sorkin is an assistant editor of business and finance news, helping guide and shape the paper's coverage.
Mr. Sorkin, who has appeared on NBC's "Today" show and on "Charlie Rose" on PBS, is a frequent guest host of CNBC's "Squawk Box." He won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 for breaking news. He also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.
Mr. Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn't yet graduated from high school. Mr. Sorkin lives in Manhattan.
As we shall soon find out, there is no such thing as too big to fail, only too big to bail out. You can hide the losses by legalizing accounting fraud, which was in fact done last year; but cash-flow catches up with you eventually. When the failure of these instituions is finally recognized, they will have been insolvent for years and will have had time to dig themselves into a bigger hole.
It takes a government to put the great into great depression.
Hm, a great shame that this was cut off before the Q&As. The Q&As are part of most other talks, so it's sad to see them cut on this talk of all talks...