The End of Wall Street Audiobook

" a near concise yet pragmatic overview of wall street's glut, demise, and eventual bail out "

" Nice intro to who and what they talked about. Interesting history that takes you along a different path to what we all lived through. A little taste of what went on behind the closed doors when wall street was bailed out. Reminded me of how little we were told while it was going on. We really are being kept in the dark. "

" Third book on our financial crisis I've read. Not as entertaining as the Big Short, but definitely better than the "let's follow bankers as they spend too much time in conference rooms" approach of Too Big to Fail. "

" Best book on the financial meltdown out of the three I have read. Too Big Too fail is from the POV of a journalist and House of Cards is a little better. This book is more of a insiders POV. "

" This was a good book for understanding just how we got screwed over. "

" Nothing but a recap of the events of 2008-09 from a Monday Morning quarterbacking perspective - no real substance or analysis of the events. "

" Lowenstein strings along a very compelling narrative which encompasses the whole financial crisis. An overall great read. "

" That Wall Street cannot be reformed. "

" Great book to help people understand why the housing market crashed. "

" A fascinating & highly informative look at the collapse of Wall Street. "

" excellent book about the great recession! "

" Probably the most authoritative account of the GFC so far written... "

" Very clearly written blow-by-blow of the meltdown. While those chapters describing the events during the crisis are interesting behind the scene looks, the good stuff was up front when he goes through the various causes leading up to the crash. "

" A big picture look at the 2008 crash. Lowenstein puts the whole process in the perspective of the last 40 years of economic history and then focuses on the dramatic 8 weeks or so in 2008 when Paulson, Bernanke, et. al. worked to save the world's economy. "

" Given the length and focus of this book, it reads like a battle history book, with mostly chronological recounting of the events and the large number of players involved in the recent financial collapse. I appreciated the analysis of how these events marked a major change in how the world operates. "

" Maybe I've just read too many books on the crisis, but this one seemed to do a lot of rehashing without bringing anything new to the table. Less technical than All the Devils and not as exciting as Too Big to Fail. "

" Great book to help people understand why the housing market crashed. "

" That Wall Street cannot be reformed. "

" Given the length and focus of this book, it reads like a battle history book, with mostly chronological recounting of the events and the large number of players involved in the recent financial collapse. I appreciated the analysis of how these events marked a major change in how the world operates. "

" Lowenstein is a great writer and did a good job of balancing careful commentary with excellent reporting. Put together a lot of pieces of the mess that I hadn't understood before. "

" A big picture look at the 2008 crash. Lowenstein puts the whole process in the perspective of the last 40 years of economic history and then focuses on the dramatic 8 weeks or so in 2008 when Paulson, Bernanke, et. al. worked to save the world's economy. "