安德鲁·罗斯·索尔金(Andrew Ross Sorkin)
《纽约时报》首席记者及专栏作家,2001年创立了《纽约时报》在线财经报道网站;2004年获得美国财经新闻界最高荣誉杰洛德·罗布奖;2005年和2006年,他的新闻再次获得美国商业新闻奖和作家学会奖;2007年,被世界经济论坛提名为全球青年领袖之一。
"$2.7 trillion of notional derivatives exposure , with 12,000 individual contracts....$1 trillion of exposure concentrated with 12 major financial institutions."
"For reasons no one quite understood, Gluksman was holding a few dozen number 2 pencils in his hand. He handed each trader one and asked him to snap it in half, which everyone did, easily and without laughing or even smirking. He then handed a bunch of them to Fuld and asked him to try to break them "
"Could the financial crisis have been avoided? That is the $1.1 trillion question - the price tag of the bailout thus far. The answer to that question is "perhaps." But the preemptive strike would probably have had to come long before Henry Paulson was sworn in as secretary of the Treasury in the spr"