Meltdown
Subtitle: how greed and corruption shattered our financial system and how we can recover
By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation ; introd. by William Greider.
Contributors: Vanden Heuvel, Katrina.; Greider, William.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781568584331
Subjects: Financial crises -- United States; Finance -- United States; United States -- Economic policy; United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- William Greider -- Part I.; title: Seeds of disaster : Wall Street and Washington: how the rules of the game have changed  -- Steve Fraser; title: Looting decade -- (excerpt) / -- Robert Sherrill; title: Democratize the Fed?: for starters  -- Doug Henwood; title: Breaking Glass-Steagull  -- editors of The Nation; title: Rise of market populism : America's new secular religion  -- Thomas Frank; title: Hunting the predators  -- Bobbi Murray; title: One-eyed chairman  -- William Greider -- Part II.; title: Alarm bells : why the bubble popped  -- Robert Sherrill; title: Bush's house of cards  -- Dean Baker; title: Leaking bubble  -- Doug Henwood; title: Show me the money  -- William Mosley; title: Monetary zombies  -- Nicholas von Hoffman; title: Henry Paulson's treasury  -- Nomi Prins; title: Born-again Rubinomics  -- William Greider -- Loan shark lobby / -- Garrett Ordower; title: Hedging bets  -- Jordan Stancil; title: Smashing capitalism  -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Housing bubble pops  -- Dean Baker; title: Coming foreclosure tsunami ; title: Christopher Hayes --; title: Subprime swindle  -- Kai Wright; title: Lawyers for the poor muzzled in subprime mess  -- Laura K. Abel; title: Youth surviving subprime  -- Allison Kilkenny; title: Is this the big one?  -- Jeff Faux -- Part III.; title: Crisis hits : the panic of 2008  -- editors of The Nation; title: Bridge loan to nowhere  -- Thomas Ferguson, -- Robert Johnson; title: Crisis of a gilded age  -- Doug Henwood; title: Henry Paulson's shell game  -- Joseph E. Stiglitiz; title: View from Asia  -- Walden Bello; title: Born-again democracy  -- William Greider; title: Suicide solution  -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Great depression II  -- Nicholas von Hoffman; title: We're all Minskyites now  -- Robert Pollin; title: Bailout: Bush's final pillage  -- Naomi Klein -- Part IV.; title: Road to recovery : how to fix our broken economy  -- Jeffrey Madrick; title: Ending plutocracy: a 12-step program  -- Sarah Anderson, -- Sam Pizzigati; title: Trust but verify  -- James K. Galbraith, -- William K. Black; title: King George and comrade Paulson  -- Ralph Nader; title: Big government bailout  -- Howard Zinn; title: Water the roots  -- Rev. -- Jesse L. Jackson; title: America needs a new New Deal  -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, -- Eric Shlosser; title: 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; title: Global perspective  -- Will Hutton; title: How to end the recession  -- Robert Pollin; title: In praise of a rocky transition -- Naomi Klein.