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Introduction: Opening the Spigot |
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PART I RISE OF THE ALCHEMISTS, 1656-2006 |
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One Johan Palmstruch and the Birth of Central Banking |
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Two Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot's Dictum |
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Three The First Name Club |
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Four Madness, Nightmare, Desperation, Chaos: When Central Banking Goes Wrong, in Two Acts |
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Five The Anguish of Arthur Burns |
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Six Spinning the Roulette Wheel in Maastricht |
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Seven Masaru Hayami, Tomato Ketchup, and the Agony of ZIRP |
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Eight The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation |
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Nine The Committee of Three |
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PART III AFTERMATH, 2009-2010 |
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Twelve The Battle for the Fed |
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Thirteen The New Greek Odyssey |
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Fourteen The King's Speech |
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Fifteen The Perilous Maiden Voyage of the QE2 |
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PART IV THE SECOND WAVE, 2011-2012 |
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Sixteen The Chopper, the Troika, and the Deauville Debacle |
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Seventeen The President of Europe |
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Nineteen Super Mario World |
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Twenty Governor Zhou's Chinese Medicine |
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Afterword: Back to Jackson |
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Acknowledgments |
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A Note on Sources |
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Notes |
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Index |
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