After the music stopped the financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead

Includes bibliographical references (pages [483]-490) and index.

Part I. It happened here : What's a nice economy like you doing in a place like this? -- Part II. Finance goes mad : In the beginning-- The house of cards -- When the music stopped -- From Bear to Lehman: inconsistency was the hobgoblin -- The Panic of 2008 -- Part iII. Picking up the pieces : Stretching out the TARP -- Stimulus, stimulus, wherefore art thou, stimulus? -- The attack on the spreads -- Part IV. The road to reform : It's broke, let's fix it: the need for financial reform -- Watching a sausage being made -- The great foreclosure train wreck -- The backlash -- Part V. Looking ahead : No exit?: Getting the Fed back to normal -- The search for a fiscal exit -- The big aftershock: the European debt crisis -- Never again: legacies of the crisis -- Part VI. Afterword : The beat goes on.