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PART I THE BLACKBERRY PANIC OF 2008 |
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1 Paulson's Folly: The Needless Rescue of AIG and Wall Street |
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3 | (16) |
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2 False Legends of Dark ATMs and Failing Banks |
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19 | (16) |
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3 Days of Crony Capitalist Plunder |
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35 | (20) |
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PART II THE REAGAN ERA REVISITED: FALSE NARRATIVES OF OUR TIMES |
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4 The Reagan Revolution: Repudiations and Deformations |
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55 | (15) |
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5 Triumph of the Warfare State: How the Budget Battle Was Lost |
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70 | (17) |
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6 Triumph of the Welfare State: How the GOP Anti-Tax Religion Was Born |
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87 | (21) |
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7 Why the Chickens Didn't Come Home to Roost: The Nixon Abomination of August 1971 |
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108 | (29) |
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PART III NEW DEAL LEGENDS AND THE TWILIGHT OF SOUND MONEY |
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8 New Deal Myths of Recovery |
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137 | (32) |
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9 The New Deal's True Legacy: Crony Capitalism and Fiscal Demise |
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169 | (26) |
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10 War Finance and the Twilight of Sound Money |
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195 | (18) |
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11 Eisenhower's Defense Minimum and the Last Age of Fiscal Rectitude |
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213 | (22) |
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12 The American Empire and the End of Sound Money |
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235 | (25) |
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13 Milton Friedman's Folly: Rise of the T-Bill Standard |
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260 | (21) |
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PART IV THE AGE OF BUBBLE FINANCE |
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14 Pork Bellies, Floating Money, and the Rise of Speculative Finance |
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281 | (39) |
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320 | (23) |
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16 Bull Market Culture and the Delusion of Quick Riches |
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343 | (18) |
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361 | (21) |
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18 The Great Deformation of Capital Markets: How Wall Street Got Huge |
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382 | (22) |
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19 From Washington to Wall Street: Roots of the Great Housing Deformation |
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404 | (21) |
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20 How the Fed Brought the Gambling Mania to America's Neighborhoods |
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425 | (18) |
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21 The Great Financial Engineering Binge |
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443 | (12) |
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22 The Great Raid on Corporate Cash |
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455 | (20) |
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23 The Rant That Shook the Eccles Building: How the Fed Got Cramer'd |
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475 | (26) |
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24 When Giant LBOs Strip-Mined the Land |
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501 | (19) |
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25 Deals Gone Wild: Rise of the Debt Zombies |
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520 | (17) |
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26 Bonfires of Debt and the Road Not Taken |
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537 | (14) |
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PART V SUNDOWN IN AMERICA: THE END OF FREE MARKETS AND DEMOCRACY |
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27 Willard M. Romney and the Truman Show of Bubble Finance |
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551 | (26) |
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28 Bonfires of Folly: Bernanke's False Depression Call and the $800 Billion Obama Stimulus |
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577 | (21) |
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29 Obama's Green Energy Capers: Crony Capitalist Larceny |
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598 | (15) |
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30 The End of Free Markets: The Rampages of Crony Capitalism in the Auto Belt |
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613 | (18) |
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31 No Recovery on Main Street |
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631 | (18) |
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32 The Bernanke Bubble: Last Gift to the 1 Percent |
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649 | (23) |
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33 Sundown in America: The State-Wreck Ahead |
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672 | (34) |
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34 Another Road That Could Be Taken |
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| Note on Sources |
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| Index |
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| About the Author |
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