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Meltdown : how greed and corruption shattered our financial system and how we can recover / Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation ; introd. by William Greider.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Nation Books, c2009.Description: xxii, 310 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 1568584334
  • 9781568584331
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB3743 .M528 2009
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Contents:
Introduction / William Greider -- Part I. Seeds of disaster : Wall Street and Washington: how the rules of the game have changed / Steve Fraser -- Looting decade (excerpt) / Robert Sherrill -- Democratize the Fed?: for starters / Doug Henwood -- Breaking Glass-Steagull / editors of The Nation -- Rise of market populism : America's new secular religion / Thomas Frank -- Hunting the predators / Bobbi Murray -- One-eyed chairman / William Greider -- Part II. Alarm bells : why the bubble popped / Robert Sherrill -- Bush's house of cards / Dean Baker -- Leaking bubble / Doug Henwood -- Show me the money / William Mosley -- Monetary zombies / Nicholas von Hoffman -- Henry Paulson's treasury / Nomi Prins -- Born-again Rubinomics / William Greider -- Loan shark lobby / Garrett Ordower -- Hedging bets / Jordan Stancil -- Smashing capitalism / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Housing bubble pops / Dean Baker -- Coming foreclosure tsunami / Christopher Hayes -- Subprime swindle / Kai Wright -- Lawyers for the poor muzzled in subprime mess / Laura K. Abel -- Youth surviving subprime / Allison Kilkenny -- Is this the big one? / Jeff Faux -- Part III. Crisis hits : the panic of 2008 / editors of The Nation -- Bridge loan to nowhere / Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson -- Crisis of a gilded age / Doug Henwood -- Henry Paulson's shell game / Joseph E. Stiglitiz -- View from Asia / Walden Bello -- Born-again democracy / William Greider -- Suicide solution / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Great depression II / Nicholas von Hoffman -- We're all Minskyites now / Robert Pollin -- Bailout: Bush's final pillage / Naomi Klein -- Part IV. Road to recovery : how to fix our broken economy / Jeffrey Madrick -- Ending plutocracy: a 12-step program / Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati -- Trust but verify / James K. Galbraith, William K. Black -- King George and comrade Paulson / Ralph Nader -- Big government bailout / Howard Zinn -- Water the roots / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson -- America needs a new New Deal / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Eric Shlosser -- What do we want?: an emergency town hall / featuring William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein, moderated by Christopher Hayes -- Global perspective / Will Hutton -- How to end the recession / Robert Pollin -- In praise of a rocky transition / Naomi Klein.
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Introduction / William Greider -- Part I. Seeds of disaster : Wall Street and Washington: how the rules of the game have changed / Steve Fraser -- Looting decade (excerpt) / Robert Sherrill -- Democratize the Fed?: for starters / Doug Henwood -- Breaking Glass-Steagull / editors of The Nation -- Rise of market populism : America's new secular religion / Thomas Frank -- Hunting the predators / Bobbi Murray -- One-eyed chairman / William Greider -- Part II. Alarm bells : why the bubble popped / Robert Sherrill -- Bush's house of cards / Dean Baker -- Leaking bubble / Doug Henwood -- Show me the money / William Mosley -- Monetary zombies / Nicholas von Hoffman -- Henry Paulson's treasury / Nomi Prins -- Born-again Rubinomics / William Greider -- Loan shark lobby / Garrett Ordower -- Hedging bets / Jordan Stancil -- Smashing capitalism / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Housing bubble pops / Dean Baker -- Coming foreclosure tsunami / Christopher Hayes -- Subprime swindle / Kai Wright -- Lawyers for the poor muzzled in subprime mess / Laura K. Abel -- Youth surviving subprime / Allison Kilkenny -- Is this the big one? / Jeff Faux -- Part III. Crisis hits : the panic of 2008 / editors of The Nation -- Bridge loan to nowhere / Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson -- Crisis of a gilded age / Doug Henwood -- Henry Paulson's shell game / Joseph E. Stiglitiz -- View from Asia / Walden Bello -- Born-again democracy / William Greider -- Suicide solution / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Great depression II / Nicholas von Hoffman -- We're all Minskyites now / Robert Pollin -- Bailout: Bush's final pillage / Naomi Klein -- Part IV. Road to recovery : how to fix our broken economy / Jeffrey Madrick -- Ending plutocracy: a 12-step program / Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati -- Trust but verify / James K. Galbraith, William K. Black -- King George and comrade Paulson / Ralph Nader -- Big government bailout / Howard Zinn -- Water the roots / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson -- America needs a new New Deal / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Eric Shlosser -- What do we want?: an emergency town hall / featuring William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein, moderated by Christopher Hayes -- Global perspective / Will Hutton -- How to end the recession / Robert Pollin -- In praise of a rocky transition / Naomi Klein.

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