The Looting of America

How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity ... And What We Can Do About It

Les Leopold

[2009]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Chapter 1:
  The Hooking of Whitefish Bay
• Chapter 2:
  The Iron Law of Fantasy Finance
• Chapter 3:
  Is There a Dime's Bit of Difference between Wall Street's "Innovation" and Gambling?
• Chapter 4:
  Learning and Unlearning the Lessons of the Great Depression
• Chapter 5:
  The Oracle Blesses Derivatives, the Newest Game in the Casino
• Chapter 6:
  Getting the Story Backwards
• Chapter 7:
  Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Chapter 8:
  Fantasy Finance Meets Reality: The Great Crash of 2008
• Chapter 9:
  The End of Fantasy Finance?
• Chapter 10:
  Proposals Wall Street Won't Like
• Chapter 11:
  Proposals Wall Street Really Won't Like

• Glossary
• Notes
• Index