Bubbles, Booms, and Busts : The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets

The Nature of Manias, Bubbles and Crashes: Introduction -- Value Trading vs. Momentum Trading -- The Rise of Manias and Bubbles -- Stages in the Boom-Bubble-Bust Sequence -- Fueling the Boom - Role of the Media -- Bubbles, Wealth and Inflation -- Speculations, Bootstraps and Swindles -- The Rationality of Investors, Bankers and Experts? -- Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System -- Fiscal Policy and Taxes -- Inequality -- Debt -- Deposit Insurance -- Regulation, Deregulation and No Regulation -- Pension Plans -- The Valuation of Common Stocks -- Internal Feedback and Endogenous Risk -- When the Bubble Pops -- A Short History of Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: The New World -- Florida Land Boom of the 1920s -- The Stock Market and the Economy of the 1920s -- The Great Depression of the 1930s -- The Savings and Loan Scandal of the 1980s -- The Bull Market of 1982-1995 -- The Crash of 1987 -- The Dot.Com Mania -- The Debt-Driven Asset Bubble Era of 1982-2013 -- Other Bubbles and Swindles of the late 1990s and 2000s. The Sub-Prime Real Estate Boom 1998-2007 -- The Real Estate Boom of 2013-2014 -- Japan and East Asia -- The Next Bubble.