Tuesday, October 7, 2014

4 of 9 books Bill Gates thinks everyone should read - Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises' by Tim Geithner

'Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises' by Tim Geithner



Gates stood at the center of an enormously complex system as the CEO of Microsoft. Timothy Geithner did much the same as US Treasury Secretary — and saw the structure fall down around him during the financial crisis.

"Geithner paints a compelling human portrait of what it was like to be fighting a global financial meltdown while at the same time fighting critics inside and outside the Administration as well as his own severe guilt over his near-total absence from his family," Gates says. "The politics of fighting financial crises will always be ugly. But it helps if the public knows a little more about the subject."

"Stress Test" provides that knowledge.