Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post 9/11 World

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Chicago Sun-Times New Approach Adds Up to a Better Way to Get Results "Anyone who wants to know how government can work when it's well handled should read Taylor's book -- and follow Taylor's example."

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Washington Post Follow the Money: An Insider Calls the Bush Team's International Policies a Major, Unheralded Success "...an intriguing and highly personalized view of some other dimensions of international policy that get far less attention these days than they deserve."

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Town Hall Manning a Forgotten Front in the War on Terrorism "...with the major media serving almost nothing but round-the-clock pessimism, it's refreshing to read a success story for a change."

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The Irish Times  Inside Story on Fighting the Financial War on Terror  "Managers of any business would learn a lot from Taylor's methods. Central bankers the world over certainly have: most of them use a rule of thumb to set interest rates that was devised by Taylor years ago."

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Back Cover Endorsements "exceedingly well written and often gripping" Alan Greenspan

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Billions over Baghdad New York Times, February 27

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Reinforcing the Financial Front, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2

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Lawmakers Seize on Taylor's Book..., Bloomberg News, March 7

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The First Shot in the War on Terror, Human Events, April 9, 2007

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Front Page Magazine, Book Interview, April 25, 2007

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 About the Book: The financial front in the war on terror is one of the least reported yet one of the most successful and important parts of the war effort.  John Taylor was on a diplomatic mission to Japan when the attacks of September 11th occurred and just months into a new job at the U.S. Treasury. As he returned to America that day via military transport, he soon realized his work and his life had changed utterly.  In this intimate look into the days, weeks, and years that followed 9/11, Taylor takes readers inside the White House situation room, the meetings of the G7 finance ministers, and to cities around the world in a tour of the crises and successes that defined this pivotal time for the financial war on terror. Over a period of four years as head of Treasury’s international finance division, Taylor coordinated global freezes and tracking of terrorist assets, planned the financial reconstruction of Afghanistan and oversaw the creation of a new Iraqi currency and central bank and the cancellation of 80% of Iraq’s national debt. In addition to these projects made necessary by a renewed urgency in the fight against terrorism, Taylor also masterminded a plan to cancel 100 % of poor country debt, helped reform the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, prevented Argentina’s debt default from sending the global economy into a tailspin, and implemented an international currency strategy that helped end the dollar peg in China and the decade long slump in Japan. As a window into a remarkable series of policy successes, Global Financial Warriors is an invaluable leadership primer on policy development and operational strategies for managers. But more than that, Taylor’s story is a testament to the ingenuity and determination of a group of people at the front lines of the financial war on terror.

 

 

Epigraph This war on terrorism will be fought on a variety of fronts…. The front lines will look different from the wars of the past….  It is a war that will require the United States to use our influence in a variety of areas in order to win it.  And one area is financial.    President George W. Bush, The Rose Garden, The White House, September 24, 2001

 

List of Speaking and Media Events

 

Links to Sources and Documents

bullet1. Terrorist Financing
bullet2. Afghanistan Financials
bullet 3. Avoiding Global Contagion
bullet4. New Rules for the Fund
bullet 5. Accountability for the World Bank
bullet6. The Turkish Option
bullet7-9. Iraqi Financials
bullet10. Exchange Rate Diplomats

 

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