"In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros places the current crisis in the context of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. Soros covers the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world and makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world."--Provided by publisher.