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Financial Shock, Updated Edition: Global Panic and Government Bailouts–How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It
Acknowledgments viii
About the Author ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Subprime Précis 9
Chapter 2: Sizing Up Subprime 33
Chapter 3: Everyone Should Own a Home 49
Chapter 4: Chairman Greenspan Counts on Housing 67
Chapter 5: Global Money Men Want a Piece 81
Chapter 6: Bad Lenders Drive Out the Good 97
Chapter 7: Financial Engineers and Their Creations 113
Chapter 8: Home Builders Run Aground 131
Chapter 9: As the Regulatory Cycle Turns 145
Chapter 10: Boom, Bubble, Bust, and Crash 161
Chapter 11: Credit Crunch 175
Chapter 12: Timid Policymakers Turn Bold 193
Chapter 13: Economic Fallout 233
Chapter 14: Back to the Future 251
Endnotes 273
Index 285
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
Prologue: Hubris 1
Part I: Faith
Chapter 1: Mirror of the Times 21
Chapter 2: Money Changes Everything 38
Chapter 3: Business of Business 52
Chapter 4: Money for Sale 65
Chapter 5: Yellow Brick Road 78
Chapter 6: Money Honey 89
Part II: Fundamentalism
Chapter 7: Los Cee-Ca-Go Boys 101
Chapter 8: False Gods, Fake Prophecies 116
Part III: Alchemy
Chapter 9: Learning to Love Debt 133
Chapter 10: Private Vices 153
Chapter 11: Dice with Debt 168
Chapter 12: The Doomsday Debt Machine 188
Chapter 13: Risk Supermarkets 208
Chapter 14: Financial Arms Race 226
Chapter 15: Woodstock for Hedge Funds 239
Chapter 16: Minsky Machines 253
Part IV: Oligarchy
Chapter 17: War Games 264
Chapter 18: Shell Games 279
Chapter 19: Cult of Risk 294
Chapter 20: Masters of the Universe 307
Chapter 21: Financial Nihilism 321
Part V: Cracks
Chapter 22: Financial Gravity 337
Chapter 23: Unusually Uncertain 348
Index 429
The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future
Acknowledgments ix
About the Author xii
Foreword xiii
Timeline xvi
Chapter 1: The Fearful Rise of Markets 1
Part I: The Rise
Chapter 2: Investment Becomes an Industry 9
Chapter 3: Indexes and Efficient Markets 16
Chapter 4: Money Markets Supplant Banks 25
Chapter 5: From Gold Standard to Oil Standard 32
Chapter 6: Emerging Markets 40
Chapter 7 Junk Bonds 48
Chapter 8: The Carry Trade 55
Chapter 9: Foreign Exchange 62
Chapter 10: Irrational Exuberance 69
Chapter 11: Banks Too Big to Fail 76
Chapter 12: Hedge Funds 83
Chapter 13: Dot Coms and Cheap Money 90
Chapter 14: BRICs 97
Chapter 15: Commodities 104
Chapter 16: Credit 112
Part II: The Fall
Chapter 17: Ending the Great Moderation 120
Chapter 18: Quant Funds 127
Chapter 19: Trust 133
Chapter 20: Bank Runs 139
Chapter 21: Bastille Day: Reflexive Markets 145
Chapter 22: Lessons from Lehman 152
Chapter 23: Politics and Institutions 158
Chapter 24: The Paradox of Diversification 163
Part III: The Fearful Rise
Chapter 25: Decoupling 171
Chapter 26: Banks Bounce 179
Chapter 27: A New Bubble? 186
Conclusion: 2010 and After 194
Notes 202
Select Bibliography 215
Index 222
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