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CONTENTS AUTHOR’S NOTE PROLOGUE I Can Still Stop This . . . PART I. PRELUDE CHAPTER 1. Main Street CHAPTER 2. In the Groves of Academe CHAPTER 3. Governor CHAPTER 4. In the Maestro’s Orchestra CHAPTER 5. The Subprime Spark CHAPTER 6. Rookie Season PART II. THE CRISIS CHAPTER 7. First Tremors, First Response CHAPTER 8. One Step Forward CHAPTER 9. The End of the Beginning CHAPTER 10. Bear Stearns: Before Asia Opens CHAPTER 11. Fannie and Freddie: A Long, Hot Summer CHAPTER 12. Lehman: The Dam Breaks CHAPTER 13. AIG: “It Makes Me Angry” CHAPTER 14. We Turn to Congress CHAPTER 15. “Fifty Percent Hell No” CHAPTER 16. A Cold Wind CHAPTER 17. Transition CHAPTER 18. From Financial Crisis to Economic Crisis PART III. AFTERMATH CHAPTER 19. Quantitative Easing: The End of Orthodoxy CHAPTER 20. Building a New Financial System CHAPTER 21. QE2: False Dawn CHAPTER 22. Headwinds CHAPTER 23. Taper Capers EPILOGUE: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON SOURCES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX AUTHOR'S NOTE In all crises, there are those who act and those who fear to act. The Federal Reserve, born ......