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- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Financial Crises: A Hardy Perennial
- 2. The Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
- 3. Speculative Manias
- 4. Fueling the Flames: The Expansion of Credit
- 5. The Critical Stage: When the Bubble Is About to Pop
- 6. Bernie Madoff: Frauds, Swindles, and the Credit Cycle
- 7. Domestic Contagion: Twin Peaks?
- 8. International Contagion 1618–1933
- 9. Bubble Contagion: Mexico City to Tokyo to Bangkok to New York, London, and Reykjavik
- 10. Policy Responses: Benign Neglect, Exhortation, and Bank Holidays
- 11. The Domestic Lender of Last Resort
- 12. The International Lender of Last Resort Before 2000
- 13. The Twenty-First Century International Lender of Last Resort
- 14. Bitcoin: Worse Than a Ponzi
- 15. The Lessons of History
- Back Matter




