Charlie Rose sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss the global economic crisis and the players who inhabited the story. Ross Sorkin is an award-winning American journalist and author of a new book Too Big to Fail. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and is the newspaper’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service, published by The Times. Ross Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances; at the time he started writing for the paper, he hadn’t yet graduated from high school.

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Source: Charlie Rose, October 19, 2009.

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