Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was created to “examine the causes of the current ?nancial and economic crisis in the United States.” In this report, the Commission presents to the President, the Congress, and the American people the results of its examination and its conclusions as to the causes of the crisis. The Commission’s statutory instructions set out speci?c topics for inquiry and called for the examination of the collapse of major ?nancial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government. This report ful?lls these mandates. In the course of its research and investigation, the Commission reviewed millions of pages of documents, interviewed more than 700 witnesses, and held 19 days of public hearings in New York, Washington, D.C., and communities across the country. The Commission also drew from a large body of existing work about the crisis developed by congressional committees, government agencies, academics, journalists, legal investigators, and many others. Includes table of contents, index, notes to chapters, and dissenting views. (This is a commercial reprint of a US Government report)