Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, And Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner

In Reckless endangerment: How outsized ambition, greed, and corruption led to economic Armageddon, New York Times financial writer Gretchen Morgenson and financial and policy analyst Joshua Rosner examine how government involvement, or lack thereof, in the economic sector helped contribute to the current economic meltdown. In the introduction, Morgenson explains the authors' goals in writing the book. First, they want to name names. She says that the book "identifies powerful people whose involvement in the debacle has not yet been chronicled" (Morgenson & Rosner, 2011). Second, they want to reveal how the seemingly discrete economic problems were actually interrelated, by revealing how they were connected to one another (Morgenson & Rosner, 2011). They recognized that the American people felt robbed, but they were also determined to try to answer the ignorance that...
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