Henry Paulson had been the CEO of Goldman Sachs, a Republican and a free marketeer. But as George W. Bush's reluctant Treasury Secretary, he engineered the biggest government intervention of modern times. During 15 months of the financial meltdown and the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, he sat for eight hours of taped interviews with Todd Purdom, whose "Confessions of Henry Paulson" are in this month's issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
One Year after the Wall Street Meltdown
Credits
Guests:
- Todd Purdum - Politico
- Mark Zandi - Moody's Analytics - @dismalscientist
- Elizabeth Warren - Democratic candidate for US Senate - @elizabethforMA
- Anil Kashyap - Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Chicago