Henry M. Paulson, former Treasury Secretary, looks back on the financial crisis on its five year anniversary, and examines what happened, why it happened, and if it could happen again.
Title: Five Years Later: On the Brink -- THE NEW PROLOGUE
As the CEO of Goldman Sachs from 1999-2006 and then as the Treasury Secretary of the United States from 2006-2009, Hank Paulson has sat across the bargaining table from countless Chinese politicians as both a banker and a statesman. Since leaving Washington, the former Treasury Secretary has worked on bridging the gap between East and West through The Paulson Institute, which he describes not as a think tank but as a "think and do" tank.