Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Starkman, Dean -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. On the Ground -- 1. The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class / Tietz, Jeff -- 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story / Kiel, Paul -- Part II. Bad Medicine -- 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story / Kimes, Mina -- 4. Prescription for Addiction / Catan, Thomas / Barrett, Devlin / Martin, Timothy W. -- 5. Anemia Drugs Made Billions, but at What Cost? / Whoriskey, Peter -- Part III. Big Business -- 6. Making the World's Largest Airline Fly / Bennett, Drake -- 7. Gusher / Coll, Steve -- Part IV. Bad Business -- 8. Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle / Barstow, David -- 9. Chesapeake and Rival Plotted to Suppress Land Prices / Grow, Brian / Schneyer, Joshua / Roberts, Janet -- 10. Fear Fans Flames for Chemical Makers / Callahan, Patricia / Roe, Sam -- Part V. Media and Marketing -- 11. His. Hers. / Pressler, Jessica -- 12. Top Five Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World! / Eskenazi, Joe -- 13. Why India's Newspaper Industry Is Thriving / Auletta, Ken -- 14. The Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much / Bensinger, Ken -- Part VI. Big Think -- 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment / Waldman, Steve Randy -- 16. The Naked and the TED / Morozov, Evgeny -- Part VII. Adventures in Finance -- 17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons / Abelson, Max -- 18. The Tale of a Whale of a Fail / Levine, Matt -- 19. Case Against Bear and JPMorgan Provides Little Cheer / McLean, Bethany -- 20. How ECB Chief Outflanked German Foe in Fight for Euro / Blackstone, Brian / Walker, Marcus -- 21. From The Trouble Is the Banks / Greif, Mark / Tortorici, Dayna / French, Kathleen / Janaskie, Emma / Werle, Nick -- 22. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs / Smith, Greg -- 23. Death Takes a Policy / Bernstein, Jake -- Part VIII. Brave New World -- 24. How Companies Learn Your Secrets / Duhigg, Charles -- 25. Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future / Gardiner, Bryan -- 26. Skilled Work, Without the Worker / Markoff, John -- 27. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave / McClelland, Mac -- 28. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad / Duhigg, Charles / Barboza, David -- 29. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking / Honan, Mat -- Permissions -- Contributors