Behavioral economics and the credit-crisis novel -- Credit, characterization, personification -- Photography and foreclosure -- Houses of horror -- Coda : the living indebted (on students and sabotage)

"Collateral damaged" explains how America had turned from a nation of savers into a nation of consumers addicted to debt. Wall Street then used that addiction to create "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the collapse of the global economy. How can America get its fiscal house in...

Make failure tolerable / George P. Shultz -- Financial reforms to end government bailouts as we know them / Paul Volcker -- Fifty years in the business : from Wall Street to the Treasury and beyond / Nicholas F. Brady -- Defining systemic risk operationally / John B. Taylor -- Lessons learned...

The man and the moment -- The politics of capture -- Continuity and collusion -- Missing a rendezvous with reform -- Crony capitalism -- Obama's loyal opposition -- Political malpractice -- Change we can believe in