A first-hand account of the economic and political causes and consequences of the financial crisis from someone who worked to prevent the system from collapsing and to restart the nation’s economy. 

Currently a fellow at Brookings, Aaron Klein served in government throughout the financial crisis, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy during the first term of the Obama Administration and as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD). Klein graduated Dartmouth College in 1998, and Princeton University in 2000.