Chapter 9: The Mad Scramble for Yield
Chapter 10: The Machinery of Subprime
Chapter 11: Radical Deregulation, Nonfeasance
7
Lipton, “Gramm and the âEnron Loophole.'”
11
Alan Greenspan, “Consumer Finance,” remarks at the Federal Reserve System's Fourth Annual Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C., April 8, 2005.
12
Alan Greenspan, “Understanding Household Debt Obligations,” remarks at the Credit Union National Association 2004 Governmental Affairs Conference, Washington, D.C., February 23, 2004.
Chapter 12: Strange Connections, Unintended Consequences
1
Frederic Bastiat, “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” in
Selected Es says on Political Economy
, trans. Seymour Cain (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1995),
www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html
.
2
Boskin Commission, “Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living: Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index,” December 4, 1996,
www.ssa.gov/history/reports/boskinrpt.html
.
5
“Free Market Society,” transcript of a discussion between David Gergen and Thomas Friedman,
NewsHour
, PBS, February 13, 1996,
www.pbs.org/
newshour /gergen/friedman.html.
Chapter 13: Moral Hazard: Why Bailouts Cause Future Problems
1
Alan Greenspan, letter to Senator Alphonse D'Amato, October 20, 1998, cited in
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
, by Roger Lowenstein (New York: Random House, 2000).
2
Allard E. Dembe and Leslie I. Boden, “Moral Hazard: A Question of Morality?”
New Solutions
10, no. 3 (2000), 257-279.
4
Roger Lowenstein,
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
(New York: Random House, 2000).
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
12
De la Merced and Morgenson, “A.I.G. Allowed.”
13
Aaron Task, “Bernanke: Mad as Hell about AIG, But Bailouts Averting âDisaster, ' ” Yahoo!, March 3, 2009,
http://bit.ly/QEK9O
.
Chapter 18: The Year of the Bailout, Part II: Too Big to Succeed?