Table of Contents
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction Bailout Nation.
PART I A BRIEF HISTORY OF BAILOUTS.
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Bailouts.
Chapter 2 The Creation of the Federal Reserve, and Its Role in Creating Our Bailout Nation.
Chapter 3 Pre-Bailout Nation (1860–1942).
Chapter 4 Industrial-Era Bailouts (1971–1995).
Intermezzo A Pattern Emerges.
PART II THE MODERN ERA OF BAILOUTS.
Chapter 5 Stock Market Bailouts (1987-1995).
Chapter 6 The Irrational Exuberance Era (1996-1999).
Chapter 7 The Tech Wreck (2000-2003).
Chapter 8 The Backwards, Rate-Driven Economy.
Intermezzo A Brief History of Finance and Credit.
Chapter 9 The Mad Scramble for Yield.
PART III MARKET FAILURE.
Chapter 10 The Machinery of Subprime.
Intermezzo A Memo Found in the Street: Uncle Sam the Enabler.
Chapter 11 Radical Deregulation, Nonfeasance.
Chapter 12 Strange Connections, Unintended Consequences.
Chapter 13 Moral Hazard: Why Bailouts Cause Future Problems.
PART IV BAILOUT NATION.
Chapter 14 2008: Suicide by Democracy.
Chapter 15 The Fall of Bear Stearns.
Chapter 16 Dot-Com Penis Envy.
Chapter 17 Year of the Bailout, Part I: The Notorious AIG.
Chapter 18 The Year of the Bailout, Part II: Too Big to Succeed?
Intermezzo Idiots Fiddle While Rome Burns.
PART V POST-BAILOUT NATION.
Chapter 19 Casting Blame.
Chapter 20 Misplaced Fault.
Chapter 21 The Virtues of Foreclosure.
Chapter 22 Casino Capitalism.
Postscript Advice to a New President.
Notes.
Index.
