too big to fail Paul Giamatti leads the cast, playing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Topher Grace takes on Jim Wilkinson, the Treasury PR man who fought against the bailout; Ed Asner plays Warren Buffet; and Cynthia Nixon is Treasury employee Michele Davis.Sorkin’s book, truly X-rated for prodigious use of the F word (How did he get inside all those meetings he retells? And do those well-educated executives really know so few other expletives?), walks hour-by-hour through the intertwining lives of a distraught Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld; bicycling addict Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson; New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner—who plays with potential merger possibilities as if he’s trading baseball cards; and a hapless Securities and Exchange Commission chair Chris Cox.
I would not revisit this issue ad nauseam, even if it does make me want to stab someone with a fucking pitchfork, except that it is really important that we not do it again. The more people understand exactly what happened the lower the chance that the cast of 2 Big 2 Fail will ask a bunch of mopey questions about how nobody saw it coming.star-studded adaptation of New York Times reporter Andrew Sorkin's inside look at the financial crisis and the government's mammoth fiscal response.
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