# Prof. Thomas Cooley's interview of "Bailout" author Neil Barofsky is featured

1 Faculty News March 16, 2013 ![Barron's logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031072.jpg?itok=FtY-yu99)>

Excerpt from [Barron's](http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704836204578354374105296986.html) -- "While the Dow continued its giddy climb to ever-new records last week, Barofsky held forth in an interview conducted by economics professor [Thomas Cooley](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-cooley) at NYU's Stern School of Business about Barofsky's best-selling book, Bailout, and his impressions of the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of TARP, the auto bailout, the health of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley et al., the Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch and surrounding lawsuits, the Dodd-Frank law, and the Volcker rule on proprietary trading."

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