“The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.”

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.