The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope (Hardcover, New)

Introduction
1 Fundamental Themes
2 What Happened?
3 Government Monetary Policy: The Fed as the Primary Cause
4 FDIC Insurance: The Background Cause
5 Government Housing Policy: The Proximate Cause
6 The Essential Role of Banks in a Complex Economy: The Liquidity Challenge
7 The Residential Real-Estate-Market Bubble and Financial-Market Stress
8 Failure of the Rating Agencies: The Subprime Mortgage Market and Its Impact on Capital Markets
9 Pick-a-Payment Mortgages: A Toxic Product of FDIC Insurance Coverage
10 How Freddie and Fannie Grew to Dominate the Home Mortgage Lending Business
11 Fair-Value Accounting and Wealth Destruction
12 Derivatives and Shadow Banking: A Misunderstanding
13 The Myth that “Deregulation” Caused the Financial Crisis
14 How the SEC Made Matters Worse
15 Market Corrections Are Necessary, but Panics Are Destructive and Avoidable
16 TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
17 What We Could Have?and Should Have?Done
18 The Cure for the Banking Industry: Systematically Move Toward Pure Capitalism
19 Some Political Cures: Government Policy
20 Our Short-Term Path and How to End Unemployment
21 The Deepest Cause Is Philosophical
22 The Cure Is Also Philosophical
23 How the United States Could Go Broke
24 The Need for Principled Action
25 Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments