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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Time Line
Introduction: Opening the Spigot
Part I: RISE OF THE ALCHEMISTS, 1656–2006
ONE: Johan Palmstruch and the Birth of Central Banking
TWO: Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot’s Dictum
THREE: The First Name Club
FOUR: Madness, Nightmare, Desperation, Chaos: When Central Banking Goes Wrong, in Two Acts
FIVE: The Anguish of Arthur Burns
SIX: Spinning the Roulette Wheel in Maastricht
SEVEN: Masaru Hayami, Tomato Ketchup, and the Agony of ZIRP
EIGHT: The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation
Part II: PANIC, 2007–2008
NINE: The Committee of Three
TEN: Over by Christmas
ELEVEN: A Wall of Money
Part III: AFTERMATH, 2009–2010
TWELVE: The Battle for the Fed
THIRTEEN: The New Greek Odyssey
FOURTEEN: The King’s Speech
FIFTEEN: The Perilous Maiden Voyage of the QE2
Part IV: THE SECOND WAVE, 2011–2012
SIXTEEN: The Chopper, the Troika, and the Deauville Debacle
SEVENTEEN: The President of Europe
EIGHTEEN: Escape Velocity
NINETEEN: Super Mario World
TWENTY: Governor Zhou’s Chinese Medicine
Afterword: Back to Jackson
Photographs
Acknowledgments
A Note On Sources
Notes
Image Credits
Index
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