List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
xi
Preface xv
PART I IT HAPPENED HERE
1 What's a Nice Economy Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
3(24)
PART II FINANCE GOES MAD
2 In the Beginning...
27(29)
3 The House of Cards
56(31)
4 When the Music Stopped
87(13)
5 From Bear to Lehman: Inconsistency Was the Hobgoblin
100(29)
6 The Panic of 2008
129(48)
PART III PICKING UP THE PIECES
7 Stretching Out the TARP
177(33)
8 Stimulus, Stimulus, Wherefore Art Thou, Stimulus?
210(27)
9 The Attack on the Spreads
237(26)
PART IV THE ROAD TO REFORM
10 It's Broke, Let's Fix It: The Need for Financial Reform
263(27)
11 Watching a Sausage Being Made
290(30)
12 The Great Foreclosure Train Wreck
320(23)
13 The Backlash
343(24)
PART V LOOKING AHEAD
14 No Exit? Getting the Fed Back to Normal
367(20)
15 The Search for a Fiscal Exit
387(22)
16 The Big Aftershock: The European Debt Crisis
409(20)
17 Never Again: Legacies of the Crisis
429(16)
Notes 445(10)
Sources 455(8)
Index 463