The Crash of 2008 And What It Means: The New Paradigm For Financial Markets

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 288 in Publisher: PublicAffairs.US This updated edition (new in paperback and with added chapters) will be both definitive on recent events and is the set to become an enduring & classic philosophical treatise on the financial markets. In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression. legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future.George Soros. whose eadth of experience in financial markets is unrivalled. places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. 'This is a once in a lifetime moment'. writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centres around the world. In a con...