From the Book - FIRST edition.
Part I: The Blackberry Panic of 2008. Paulson's folly: The needless rescue of AIG and Wall Street
False legends of dark ATMS and failing banks
Days of crony capitalist plunder
The Reagan Era revisited: False narratives of our times. The Reagan Revolution: Repudiations and deformations.
Part II: Triumph of the warfare state: How the budget battle was lost
Triumph of the welfare state: How the GOP anti-tax religion was born
Why the chickens didn't come home to roost: The Nixon abomination of August 1971.
Part III: New Deal legends and the twilight of sound money. New Deal myths of recovery
The New Deal's true legacy: Crony capitalism and fiscal demise
War finance and the twilight of sound money
Eisenhower's defense minimum and the last age of fiscal rectitude
The American Empire and the end of sound money
Milton Friedman's folly: Rise of the T-bill standard.
Part IV: The age of bubble finance. Pork bellies, floating money, and the rise of speculative finance
Bull market culture and the delusion of quick riches
The great deformation of capital markets: How Wall Street got huge
From Washington to Wall Street: Roots of the great housing deformation
How the Fed brought the gambling mania to America's neighborhoods
The great financial engineering binge
The great raid on corporate cash
The rant that shook the Eccles Building: How the Fed got Cramer'd
When giant LBOs strip-mined the land
Deals gone wild: Rise of the debt zombies
Bonfires of debt and the road not taken.
Part V: Sundown in America: The end of free markets and democracy. Willard M. Romney and the Truman Show of bubble finance
Bonfires of folly: Bernanke's false depression call and the $800 billion Obama stimulus
Obama's green energy capers: Crony capitalist larceny
The end of free markets: The rampages of crony capitalism in the auto belt
No recovery on Main Street
The Bernanke bubble: Last gift to the 1 percent
Sundown in America: The state-wreck ahead
Another road that could be taken.
