Lacy Andersen has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 34 ratings. The most-rated is Stress Test.
Stress Test
Summary
From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. On January 26, 2009, during the depth of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in by President Barack Obama as the 75th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Now, in a strikingly candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, Geithner takes listeners behind the scenes during the darkest moments of the crisis. Swift, decisive, and creative action was required to avert a second Great Depression, but policy makers faced a fog of uncertainty, with no good options and the risk of catastrophic outcomes. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises takes us inside the room, explaining in accessible and forthright terms the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions that Geithner and others in the Obama administration made during the crisis and recovery. He discusses the most controversial moments of his tenures at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Treasury, including the harrowing weekend Lehman Brothers went bankrupt; the searing crucible of the AIG bonuses controversy; the development of his widely criticized but ultimately successful plan in early 2009 to end the crisis; the bracing fight for the most sweeping financial reforms in 70 years; and the lingering aftershocks of the crisis, including high unemployment, the fiscal battles, and Europe's repeated flirtations with the economic abyss. Geithner also shares his personal and professional recollections of key players such as President Obama, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and Larry Summers, among others, and examines the tensions between politics and policy that have come to dominate discussions of the U.S. economy. An insider's account of how the Obama administration saved the economy but lost the American people, Stress Test reveals a side of Timothy Geithner that only few have seen.
©2014 Timothy F. Geithner (P)2014 Random House Audio
Dare You to Kiss the Quarterback
Summary
A little dare never hurt anybody.... I’m ready to rock my senior year. So what if my parents are recently divorced, the captain of the cheerleading team hates me more than tan lines, or that I’ve been forced to wear the school’s smelly mascot costume? Those things I can handle. (Maybe.) But if I get to sing my original song at the town’s big centennial event, I’ll be on my way to living the life I’ve always dreamed. But there’s only one problem: Collin thinks-he’s-God’s-gift-to-women Preston. Foster kid. Bad boy. And star quarterback of the Rock Valley High football team. It’s bad enough that the whole school thinks we made out at a party (Nothing happened. Seriously.), but now I’ve been partnered with Collin to perform at the centennial event. If I get it my way, he’ll drop out and we’ll both forget our near-kiss ever happened. But Collin and his cocky half-grin aren’t easy to forget. Neither is the shiver-inducing way he looks at me. I’ve got to keep my eyes on the prize, but being around Collin might just be the distraction that I need. This is a sweet young-adult romance in the Rock Valley High series of stand-alone novels.
©2019 Lacy Andersen (P)2020 Lacy Andersen