Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis.
The Global Financial Crisis
The Global Financial Crisis
Instructors: Andrew Metrick
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This is a very interesting course with a very informative professor and instructor. I just received “The Stress Test” in the mail, but have not started reading it.
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Excellent course. A real privilege to have this kind of instructors. Exceptional opportunity to receive information directly from one of the main protagonists of the event.
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We are really very fortunate to have the courses like this. A lot of thanks with a request that please continue to bring these very high quality courses in future also.
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