As the world struggles to contain Covid19 and cope with the economic carnage left by the pandemic, what lessons can we learn from the way the 2008 financial crisis was averted and Britains banks were kept afloat? This truelife thriller puts you in the room with ministers, mandarins, City watchdogs and the disgraced bankers themselves as they raced to save Royal Bank of Scotland, then the worlds biggest lender, and the rest of the British banking industry from collapse. They had to prevent the contagion spreading uncontrollably from the financial sector to the real economy. Then, as now, they had to discover a vaccine and they needed to find it fast.Drawing on exclusive and extensive interviews with Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Mervyn King and other central figures, including government ministers, Whitehall advisers, top civil servants, central bankers, regulators and bank CEOs, Five Minutes to Midnight takes you inside Number 10 Downing Street, the Treasury and the boardrooms of Britains biggest financial institutions. It also takes you across the world into the White House and the chambers of the IMF and G7 as Brown and Darling crisscross the globe urging other governments to use the British rescue plan as a blueprint for their own ailing economies.Day by day, hour by hour, it recounts the mounting tensions, the personality clashes, the standoffs, the bitter arguments and the brinkmanship as financiers and politicians lock horns with one another and sometimes with...

Binding: Paperback;230 pages; Publisher: Hartington Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 418.46 g; Dimensions: N/A

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