May 21, 2026
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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Disruption: Wall Street Booms & Busts

Parallels between the 1929 crash and today.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin visits The Economic Club of Kansas City to talk about the forces shaping today’s economy. In his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation, he gives an historical account of the power, risk and the decisions that led to the stock market crash. Could it happen again? He’ll connect the lessons of then and now to the economic
disruptions occurring today.

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Speakers Andrew Ross Sorkin

New York Times Bestselling Author

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box.Sorkin is also the founder and editor at large of DealBook, a news site published by the Times.

He is the author of 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation.It was a New York Times bestseller and named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME,

The Economist, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg. He is also the author of Too Big to Fail, a bestseller that became the authoritative account of the 2008 financial crisis and was adapted into an Emmy-nominated HBO film, which he co-produced. Sorkin is also co-creator of the drama series “Billions” on Showtime.


He has won numerous journalistic honors, including two Gerald Loeb Awards. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He started writing for the Times in 1995, while still in high school.