Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System

How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry

“Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers—and for good reason—as voters and legislators learn the difficult lessons of Lehman’s collapse and demand that we never forget them.”
Dr. David C. Shimko, Board of Trustees, Global Association of Risk Professionals

“Uncontrolled Risk is a drama as gripping as any work of fiction. Williams’s recommendations for changes in the governance of financial institutions should be ...