Silber: William McAdoo 1, Hank Paulson 0

I did a bunch of interviews for my Hank Paulson article that didn’t make it into the piece. One of the most interesting was with William L. Silber, the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics at NYU’s Stern School. Silber is the author of When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis [...]

Hank Paulson wants to live in a country where financial institutions are allowed to fail

On Monday, July 28, my TIME colleague Michael Duffy and I paid a visit to the Treasury building in Washington to talk to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Parts of the interview made their way into my article in the current issue of the magazine. After the break, you can read some more parts. The interview [...]