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|a INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- GENERAL EXPLANATIONS OF THE CRISIS -- Incquality, Power, and ldeology / Arthur MacEwan -- Reccssion, Depression, Repression 1 : Whať's in a Name? / John Miller -- That `70s Crisis / Alejandro Renss -- Crisis and Ncoliberal Capitalism / David Kotz / Capitalism Hits the Fan / Richard D. Wolff -- We're All Minskyites Now / Robert Pollin -- The "Credit Tsunami" / Steve Keen -- Profits, the Business Cycle, and the Current Crisis -- The Greed Fallacy / Arthur MacEwan -- CHAPTER 2 : WARNING SIGNS -- Bubble Trouble -- A House of Cards / Dean Baker -- CHAPTER 3 : THE HOUSING CRISIS / Tamara Draut and Adria Scharf -- CONTENTS -- (Mis)Understanding a Banking Industry in Transition / William K. Black -- America's Growing Fringe Economy / Howard Karger -- Financialization: A Primer / Ramaa Vasudevan -- Private Equity Exposed / Orlando Segura, Jr. -- The Homeownership Myth / Howard Karger -- Confhdence Trick / Jobn Miller -- Renters in the Crosshairs / Daniel Fireside -- How to Stop the Foreclosures? -- CHAPTER 4 : THE FINANCIAL CRISIS / Hedge Funds Arthur Mactwan -- The Fed and America's Distorted Expansion -- Who Cares If Bear Stearns Fails? / Arthur MacEwan -- Can the Fed Handle a Systemic Crisis? Maybe. / Jane DArista, Fred Moseley, Arthur MacEwan -- From Tulips to Mortgage-Backed Securities -- Dealing with a Rotten Tooh -- Timne for Permanent Nationalization! -- Trust Your Gut / William Greider, Paul Mattick, Thomas I. Palley -- The Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fred Moseley -- Who Gets Those Trillions? / Marty Wolfson, Arthur MacEwan -- Ponzi Schemes and Speculative Bubbles / Arthur MacEwan -- Derivatives and Deregulation / Gerald Friedman, Fred Museley -- CHAPTER 5 : MONETARY POLICY -- Pushing on Strings -- Bernankc's Bad Teachers -- The Bailouts Revisitcd / Marty Wolfso / William Greider -- Fixing the Fed -- CHAPTER 6 : FISCAL POLICY / Gerald Friedman, Gerald Iricdman --Keynes and the Limits of Monctary Policy / Alejandro Reuss -- Stimulus Whining / John Miller -- The Economic Crisis in the States -- State Budget Blues -- Budget Blues / Marianne Hill -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deicit -- Responding to Revisionism / Gerald Friedman -- Fiscal Policy and "Crowding Out" / Alejandro Reuss -- Why Are Things Getting Worse and Worse? -- CHAPTER 7 : THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS -- CHAPTER 8 -- Bail Out the Safety Net / Randy Albelda -- Saving Energy Creates / Jobs Heidi Garrett-Peltier -- A New WPA? / Ryan A. Dodd, Gerald Friedman -- WORKERS AND THE CRISIS -- Contributors / Arthur MacEwan -- The Specter of Capital Flight -- Tax Havens and the Financial Crisis -- Beyond the World Creditors' Cartel -- No Bailout for AIDS / Mara Kardas-Nelson -- The Beijing Statement on the Global Economic Crisis -- The Caracas Statement on the Global Economic Crisis / Marie Duggan -- Rebuilding the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up / Alejandro Reuss, John Miller -- Putting the “Global" in the Global Economic Crisis / Smriti Rao -- Freedom's Just Another Word for..Crisis-Prone / John Miller -- The Giant Pool of Money / Arthur MacEwan, Rachel Keeler, Dariush Sokolov -- The Global Crisis and the World Labor Movement -- The Real Audacity of Hope / Kari Lyderson and James Tracy -- Corporate America's Counter-Stimulus Strategy / Roger Bybee -- Worker Direct Acion Grows in Wake of Financial Meltdown -- Immanuel Ness anl / Stacy Warner Mudlern -- Gender and the Recession / Heather Boushey -- The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a Ycar High / Jobn Miller, Murianne Hill -- Unemployment Insurance : A Broken System -- Should We Be Talking About Living Wages Now? / Dun LaBotz, Jednnette Wicks-Lim
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