.. i read every single book literally with the words either panic or meltdown, and i do most of my reading at night. i had to stop. it is like watching the abscesses before you go to bed except the exercise has a happier ending. it is a more cheerful ending than reading this book. i kept on asking myself, i wanted to really find out the answer because the answers i were getting were so superficial. then i bought hank paulson s book on the brink and paulson was the secretary of treasury the last few years of the bush administration and his daily routine had to be much like the one dorothy parker describes when she says opening up a newspaper each morning, what is this? i don t agree with everything paulson says. but i think history will judge him well because he was probably the right person for the job at that time. it was a hellacious job. he and he had a lot of tough decisions to make her go he did them very systematically. each morning he would be, let s see, lehman brothe