Fault Lines by Raghuram G. Rajan Summary
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Raghuram Rajan's "Fault Lines" predicted the 2008 financial crisis years before it happened. This Financial Times award-winning masterpiece reveals the hidden economic fractures still threatening global stability today. What dangerous warning signs are we missing right now?
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The Cracks Beneath Our Feet
A strange thing happened at an elite economics conference in 2005. While central bankers and policymakers celebrated the "Great Moderation"-an era of stable growth and low inflation-one economist stood up and warned that the financial system was becoming dangerously unstable. The room erupted in criticism. Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary, dismissed the concerns as "Luddite." Yet three years later, the global economy would nearly collapse, validating what seemed like paranoia. What did this lone voice see that everyone else missed? Not greedy bankers or incompetent regulators, but something far more fundamental: deep structural cracks in the global economy that had been widening for decades, waiting for the right pressure to trigger catastrophe.
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