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In easy to understand terms and journalistic style, Read describes the reasons for global financial unrest arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and economic meltdowns. He walks the reader through a number of topics in economics and connects these topics to real world financial problems concluding with recommendations for the future.

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• List of Illustrations(p. ix)
• About the Author(p. x)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Evolution of the Modern Economic System
• 2 The Beauty (and the Beast) of Free Markets(p. 7)
• 3 The Post-Industrial Revolution and the Transforming Economies(p. 18)
• Part II Creation of the Consumer-Investor
• 4 The Anatomy of a Train Wreck(p. 29)
• 5 Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Kicks for Free(p. 38)
• 6 The World Threw a Party(p. 45)
• Part III An Emerging New World
• 7 When I'm 64(p. 59)
• 8 Progress Marches On(p. 67)
• 9 Fill 'Er Up(p. 74)
• 10 Gold, Oil, and Dollars, and the Decline of an Economic Superpower(p. 83)
• Part IV Banks and Central Banking
• 11 Too Clever by One Half(p. 91)
• 12 Who's Minding the Store?(p. 100)
• 13 Who Spiked the Punchbowl?(p. 112)
• 14 Who Stole the Punchbowl?(p. 118)
• 15 Seems that We Have a Failure to Coordinate(p. 124)
• 16 The Timely Death of Supply Side Economics(p. 132)
• Part V Financial Failures
• 17 The Higher You Go, the Farther You Fall(p. 139)
• 18 America Sneezes and the World Catches a Cold(p. 144)
• 19 Asleep at the Switch(p. 149)
• 20 The Bigger You Are, the Softer You Fall(p. 158)
• 21 It's Downright Criminal(p. 166)
• 22 Somebody's Hedging(p. 172)
• 23 Markets and Technology - The Great Enabler or the Great Disabler?(p. 180)
• Part VI Politics and Perceptions
• 24 Panics, Politics, and the Media(p. 189)
• 25 The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself(p. 194)
• 26 Do Stimulus Packages Work?(p. 201)
• 27 When Politics Gets in the Way of Good Ole' Common Sense(p. 207)
• 28 The Taxman Cometh(p. 213)
• 29 An Educated Global Citizen(p. 222)
• 30 Let's Build a Better Mousetrap(p. 225)
• 31 Conclusions(p. 239)
• 32 Epilogue(p. 242)
• Notes(p. 245)
• Index(p. 249)

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COLIN READ has a Ph.D. in Economics, a law degree, and master's degree in business and in taxation. He has taught economics and finance for twenty five years, and is currently Dean of a school of business and economics in New York, USA. He has recently published a book on International Taxation, and appears regularly on a local PBS show on economic development, and is a prolific writer on a variety of economic issues.