Bailout nation: how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy

Foreword.    Acknowledgments.     Introduction Bailout Nation.     PART I A BRIEF HISTORY OF BAILOUTS.     Chapter 1 A Brief History of Bailouts.     Chapter 2 The Creation of the Federal Reserve, and Its Role in Creating Our Bailout Nation.     Chapter 3 Pre-Bailout Nation (1860   1942).     Chapter 4 Industrial-Era Bailouts (1971   1995).     Intermezzo A Pattern Emerges.     PART II THE MODERN ERA OF BAILOUTS.     Chapter 5 Stock Market Bailouts (1987-1995).     Chapter 6 The Irrational Exuberance Era (1996-1999).     Chapter 7 The Tech Wreck (2000-2003).     Chapter 8 The Backwards, Rate-Driven Economy.     Intermezzo A Brief History of Finance and Credit.     Chapter 9 The Mad Scramble for Yield.     PART III MARKET FAILURE.     Chapter 10 The Machinery of Subprime.     Intermezzo A Memo Found in the Street: Uncle Sam the Enabler.     Chapter 11 Radical Deregulation, Nonfeasance.     Chapter 12 Strange Connections, Unintended Consequences.     Chapter 13 Moral Hazard: Why Bailouts Cause Future Problems.     PART IV BAILOUT NATION.     Chapter 14 2008: Suicide by Democracy.     Chapter 15 The Fall of Bear Stearns.     Chapter 16 Dot-Com Penis Envy.     Chapter 17 Year of the Bailout, Part I: The Notorious AIG.     Chapter 18 The Year of the Bailout, Part II: Too Big to Succeed?     Intermezzo Idiots Fiddle While Rome Burns.     PART V POST-BAILOUT NATION.     Chapter 19 Casting Blame.     Chapter 20 Misplaced Fault.     Chapter 21 The Virtues of Foreclosure.     Chapter 22 Casino Capitalism.     Postscript Advice to a New President.     Notes.     Index.