NEIL IRWIN is senior economic correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a founding member of The Upshot. He is the author of The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, a New York Times bestselling account of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, short-listed for the McKinsey-Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He has an MBA from Columbia University, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business Journalism. He lives in Washington.
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When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bern... SEE MORE