Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Rigged Wall Street? by William Greider -- Part One: Seeds of Disaster -- Wall Street and Washington: How the Rules of the Game Have Changed by Steve Fraser -- The Looting Decade (Excerpt) by Robert Sherrill -- Democratize the Fed? For Starters by Doug Henwood -- Breaking Glass-Steagall by Editors of The Nation -- The Rise of Market Populism: America's New Secular Religion by Thomas Frank -- Hunting the Predators by Bobbi Murray -- The One-Eyed Chairman by William Greider -- Part Two: Alarm Bells -- Why the Bubble Popped by Robert Sherrill -- Bush's House of Cards by Dean Baker -- Leaking Bubble by Doug Henwood -- Show Me the Money by Walter Mosley -- Monetary Zombies by Nicholas von Hoffman -- Henry Paulson's Treasury by Nomi Prins -- Born-Again Rubinomics by William Greider -- The Loan Shark Lobby by Garrett Ordower -- Hedging Bets by Jordan Stancil -- Smashing Capitalism by Barbara Ehrenreich -- The Housing Bubble Pops by Dean Baker -- The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami by Christopher Hayes -- The Subprime Swindle by Kai Wright -- Lawyers for the Poor Muzzled in Subprime Mess by Laura K. Abel -- Youth Surviving Subprime by Allison Kilkenny -- Is This the Big One? by Jeff Faux -- Part Three: The Crisis Hits -- The Panic of 2008 by Editors of The Nation -- Bridge Loan to Nowhere by Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson -- Crisis of a Gilded Age by Doug Henwood -- Henry Paulson's Shell Game by Joseph E. Stiglitiz -- View from Asia by Walden Bello -- Born-Again Democracy by William Greider -- The Suicide Solution by Barbara Ehrenreich -- The Great Depression II by Nicholas von Hoffman -- We're All Minskyites Now by Robert Pollin -- The Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage by Naomi Klein -- Part Four: The Road to Recovery -- How to Fix Our Broken Economy by Jeffrey Madrick.

Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program by Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati -- Trust but Verify by James K. Galbraith and William K. Black -- King George and Comrade Paulson by Ralph Nader -- A Big Government Bailout by Howard Zinn -- Water the Roots by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson -- America Needs a New New Deal by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser -- 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 -- The Global Perspective by Will Hutton -- How to End the Recession by Robert Pollin -- In Praise of a Rocky Transition by Naomi Klein -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors.