Meltdown
Meltdown how greed and corruption shattered our financial system and how we can recover / [electronic resource] :
Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation ; introd. by William Greider.
- New York : Nation Books, c2009.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 310 p. )
Introduction / Seeds of disaster : Wall Street and Washington: how the rules of the game have changed / Looting decade Democratize the Fed?: for starters / Breaking Glass-Steagull / Rise of market populism : America's new secular religion / Hunting the predators / One-eyed chairman / Alarm bells : why the bubble popped / Bush's house of cards / Leaking bubble / Show me the money / Monetary zombies / Henry Paulson's treasury / Born-again Rubinomics / Hedging bets / Smashing capitalism / Housing bubble pops / Coming foreclosure tsunami / Christopher Hayes -- Subprime swindle / Lawyers for the poor muzzled in subprime mess / Youth surviving subprime / Is this the big one? / Crisis hits : the panic of 2008 / Bridge loan to nowhere / Crisis of a gilded age / Henry Paulson's shell game / View from Asia / Born-again democracy / Suicide solution / Great depression II / We're all Minskyites now / Bailout: Bush's final pillage / Road to recovery : how to fix our broken economy / Ending plutocracy: a 12-step program / Trust but verify / King George and comrade Paulson / Big government bailout / Water the roots / America needs a new New Deal / What do we want?: an emergency town hall / Global perspective / How to end the recession / In praise of a rocky transition / William Greider -- Steve Fraser -- Robert Sherrill -- Doug Henwood -- Thomas Frank -- Bobbi Murray -- William Greider -- Robert Sherrill -- Dean Baker -- Doug Henwood -- William Mosley -- Nicholas von Hoffman -- Nomi Prins -- William Greider -- Loan shark lobby / Garrett Ordower -- Jordan Stancil -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Dean Baker -- Kai Wright -- Laura K. Abel -- Allison Kilkenny -- Jeff Faux -- Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson -- Doug Henwood -- Joseph E. Stiglitiz -- Walden Bello -- William Greider -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Nicholas von Hoffman -- Robert Pollin -- Naomi Klein -- Jeffrey Madrick -- Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati -- James K. Galbraith, William K. Black -- Ralph Nader -- Howard Zinn -- Jesse L. Jackson -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Eric Shlosser -- William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein, Christopher Hayes -- Will Hutton -- Robert Pollin -- Naomi Klein. Part I. (excerpt) / editors of The Nation -- Part II. Part III. editors of The Nation -- Part IV. Rev. featuring moderated by
9780253009777
Finance--United States.
Financial crises--United States.
United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
United States--Economic policy.
Electronic books.
HB3743 / .M45 2009
Introduction / Seeds of disaster : Wall Street and Washington: how the rules of the game have changed / Looting decade Democratize the Fed?: for starters / Breaking Glass-Steagull / Rise of market populism : America's new secular religion / Hunting the predators / One-eyed chairman / Alarm bells : why the bubble popped / Bush's house of cards / Leaking bubble / Show me the money / Monetary zombies / Henry Paulson's treasury / Born-again Rubinomics / Hedging bets / Smashing capitalism / Housing bubble pops / Coming foreclosure tsunami / Christopher Hayes -- Subprime swindle / Lawyers for the poor muzzled in subprime mess / Youth surviving subprime / Is this the big one? / Crisis hits : the panic of 2008 / Bridge loan to nowhere / Crisis of a gilded age / Henry Paulson's shell game / View from Asia / Born-again democracy / Suicide solution / Great depression II / We're all Minskyites now / Bailout: Bush's final pillage / Road to recovery : how to fix our broken economy / Ending plutocracy: a 12-step program / Trust but verify / King George and comrade Paulson / Big government bailout / Water the roots / America needs a new New Deal / What do we want?: an emergency town hall / Global perspective / How to end the recession / In praise of a rocky transition / William Greider -- Steve Fraser -- Robert Sherrill -- Doug Henwood -- Thomas Frank -- Bobbi Murray -- William Greider -- Robert Sherrill -- Dean Baker -- Doug Henwood -- William Mosley -- Nicholas von Hoffman -- Nomi Prins -- William Greider -- Loan shark lobby / Garrett Ordower -- Jordan Stancil -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Dean Baker -- Kai Wright -- Laura K. Abel -- Allison Kilkenny -- Jeff Faux -- Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson -- Doug Henwood -- Joseph E. Stiglitiz -- Walden Bello -- William Greider -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Nicholas von Hoffman -- Robert Pollin -- Naomi Klein -- Jeffrey Madrick -- Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati -- James K. Galbraith, William K. Black -- Ralph Nader -- Howard Zinn -- Jesse L. Jackson -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Eric Shlosser -- William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein, Christopher Hayes -- Will Hutton -- Robert Pollin -- Naomi Klein. Part I. (excerpt) / editors of The Nation -- Part II. Part III. editors of The Nation -- Part IV. Rev. featuring moderated by
9780253009777
Finance--United States.
Financial crises--United States.
United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
United States--Economic policy.
Electronic books.
HB3743 / .M45 2009