The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

The inside story of the world’s most powerful central bankers—and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen

Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful people in the world. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Centra...