Exclusive Excerpt of "The Alchemists"

Wonkblog economics editor Neil Irwin has a book coming out this week. "The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire" tells the story of how central bankers came to exert vast influence over the global economy, and how they wielded that power from 2007 to 2012, through the financial crisis and its aftermath.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/31/buzzing-blackberrys-billion-dollar-bailouts-and-behind-the-scenes-in-basel-how-global-central-bankers-battled-the-crisis/