“Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.”

American journalist and author

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He founded and edits DealBook, the financial news service published by The New York Times. Sorkin also wrote the bestseller Too Big to Fail, co-produced its HBO Films adaptation, and helped create the Showtime series Billions.