- Published: 1 July 2015
- ISBN: 9781847941244
- Imprint: Random House Business
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $27.99
Stress Test
Reflections on Financial Crises
- Published: 1 July 2015
- ISBN: 9781847941244
- Imprint: Random House Business
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $27.99
Sensational ... Tim's book will forever be the definitive work on what causes financial panics and what must be done to stem them when they occur.
Warren Buffett
Stress Test is an absolutely compelling account of the financial crisis, written in a clear, graceful style with striking honesty at every step along the way.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
This is a lucid, fascinating, and extremely important book … Geithner does something unusual: he engages in substance. With both insight and humility, plus a good dose of wry humor, he explains what really happened during the financial crisis. No matter your political persuasion, you will find this book educational, enlightening, and interesting.
Walter Isaacson
Sharply worded and candid memoir.
Edward Luce, Financial Times
A fascinating memoir about life in the maelstrom of the financial crisis … Earlier books have described much of what happened that September, but Geithner was present for all the frantic meetings, the thousands of phone calls — and in the case of Lehman, the failure to find a buyer that could keep it alive. New problems cropped up almost weekly, if not daily. He explains each in easy-to-understand language and what the issues were that shaped the responses… There could be another crisis someday, of course, but what Geithner and his colleagues did has made one far less likely.
USA Today
He’s written a really good book — we might as well get that out of the way, as so much else about Timothy F. Geithner remains unsettled … There’s hardly a moment in Geithner’s story when the reader feels he is being anything but straightforward — a near-superhuman feat for someone who spent so much time in public life defending himself from careless and dishonest personal attacks. The decisions he made are easier to criticize than they are to improve upon. I doubt many readers will put his book down and think the man did anything but his best. On his feet he might have stammered and wavered. That in itself was always a sign he was unusually brave.
Michael Lewis, New York Times Book Review
An intimate take on the financial crisis … Conveys in visceral terms just how precarious things were during the crisis, just how frightened many first responders were, and just what an achievement it was to avert a major depression… [Geithner] demonstrates that he can discuss economics in an accessible fashion, making the situation the country faced in 2008 and 2009 tactile, comprehensible—and harrowing—to the lay reader. Along the way, he also gives us a telling portrait of himself.
New York Times
Deals with issues far bigger than anything on the Man Booker long list.
Anne Ashworth, The Times