Secret Weapon · How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again by Freeman, Kevin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Dedication Epigraph Introduction CHAPTER ONE - THE WRITING ON THE WALL CHAPTER TWO - A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE

THE BASICS: FROM THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR TO THE CIVIL WAR THE OLD-FASHIONED BLOCKADE: PEARL HARBOR AND OIL THE SOPHISTICATED GAME: OPERATION BERNHARD THE BIG GAME: THE COLD WAR THE SUEZ CANAL: HOW THE UNITED STATES USED ECONOMIC WARFARE AGAINST OUR ALLIES FULL-SCALE ECONOMIC WARFARE: OPEC IN 1973 GEORGE SOROS: FINANCIAL TERRORIST?

CHAPTER THREE - IT GETS PERSONAL

GETTING THE BALL ROLLING

CHAPTER FOUR - THE MOTIVE

CHAPTER FIVE - THE MEANS

OIL MANIPULATION CURRENCY AND DEBT MANIPULATION BEAR RAIDS CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS NAKED SHORT SELLING DOUBLE- AND TRIPLE-SHORT ETFS SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS DARK MARKETS DARK POOLS AND SPONSORED ACCESS ALGORITHMIC TRADING ROGUE TRADERS ARBOON

CHAPTER SIX - THE OPPORTUNITY

THE UPTICK RULE THE HOUSING BUBBLE NATIONAL DEBT THE REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL UNREGULATED DERIVATIVES FREEDOM TO GET NAKED THE MADOFF EXEMPTION ACCOUNTING TRICKERY THE NMS REGULATION OPENING THE DOOR TO FINANCIAL JIHAD

CHAPTER SEVEN - HOW THEY DID IT

PHASE ONE: THE OIL RUN-UP PHASE TWO: THE BEAR RAIDS WHODUNNIT? NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL

CHAPTER EIGHT - NO SOLUTION IN SIGHT

THE REAL PROBLEM: PHASE THREE THE CONTINUING ISLAMIC THREAT THE BRIC DANGER A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION THE STRUGGLE THE BREAKTHROUGH

CHAPTER NINE - THE NEXT ATTACK

WOULD CHINA DO IT? THE DRY RUN THE BEGINNING THE EUROPEAN DOMINO THEORY

CONCLUSION Acknowledgments NOTES INDEX Copyright Page