False Profits

Index

A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E F  |  G  |  H  |  I  |  L M  |  O  |  P  |  R  |  S T  |  U  |  V  |  W

A

adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), 28

option, 28

AIG, 61, 81–83, 152

Alt-A loans, 27–30

Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), 107

artists, Internet-age support for, 127–28

automobile industry, 40

B

baby boomers, 20, 41, 42

new wealth of early, 50–51, 51f

new wealth of late, 48–50, 49f

bankruptcy reform, 94–96

banks. See also financial sector; TARP

transactions and distrust between, 63–64

Wall Street, 29

Bear Stearns, 60, 62

benefit of pain theory, 44–46

Bernanke, Ben, 5, 60, 61, 63, 65, 66, 81, 83, 164n4

bonds, 150–51

Britain. See United Kingdom building, 21–22, 87, 88

C

China, 114, 158

Citigroup, 79–80

commercial paper market, 63, 65, 66

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