Friday, January 30, 2009

It's always the bankers....

If the Great Depression and the year 1929 are the benchmark for true financial mayhem, than understanding the confluence of events that lead to that crises might help us better understand where we are today.  Financial expert, Liaquat Ahamed in his new book LORDS OF FINANCE, gives us some penetrating insights in his new history of the world economic collapse of the late 20's and gives us, in detail, the men whose decisions were the primary cause of the economic meltdown.  

My conversation with Ahamed: