{"id":550,"date":"2012-02-02T03:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2019-12-03T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:06:21","slug":"too-big-to-fail-by-andrew-ross-sorkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/too-big-to-fail-by-andrew-ross-sorkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">B<em>ook Review by George Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Too-Big-To-Fail-by-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin.jpg\" alt=\"Too-Big-To-Fail-by-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin\" class=\"wp-image-551\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system \u2013 and themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA riveting, compelling read; the closest the average reader will come to understand the human failures that led to the greatest economic event since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could the collapse have been avoided? Perhaps. Super egos and quest for power combined with avarice make a toxic cocktail, but, draw your own conclusions. Could it happen again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;I think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review by George Kennedy The inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system \u2013 and themselves. \u201cA riveting, compelling read; the closest the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bookshelf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}