As the latest attempt to explain the subprime crisis, this bestseller is useful as a factual compendium, but little more. It illustrates a common pitfall in many journalists’ accounts of financial crises. Anecdotes about important players belong in crisis history. But readers seeking to understand such crises want to know why events happened together, in a particular sequence and with particular consequences.
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