Andrew Ross Sorkin on Trump’s Unrivaled Economic Power, Fed Politics, and the New Speculative Era
Well, it was a lot more complicated, to be honest, than writing Too Big to Fail, because, you know, back then, Ben Bernanke and the president of the United States and Jamie Dimon and all those people were alive.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Trump’s Unrivaled Economic Power, Fed Politics, and the New Speculative Era
And so the big challenge, one of the reasons it took me eight years to do was I was trying to be able to write the story with the same kind of granular detail, the same the quotes.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Trump’s Unrivaled Economic Power, Fed Politics, and the New Speculative Era
And the only way to get that kind of detail was ultimately to find diaries and letters and memos and depositions and trial transcripts and all sorts of things like that.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Trump’s Unrivaled Economic Power, Fed Politics, and the New Speculative Era
And that's what took so long because just even to figure out who the characters were, who I wanted to focus on, were they all in the same room together?