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As head of goldman sachs, paulson had a pivotal role in opening up china to private enterprise. Other books include the bestsellers on the brink and dealing with china. Inside the race to stop the collapse of the global financial system with original new material on the five year anniversary of the financial crisis paulson jr. Treasury secretary for the final two and a half years of the george w.
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