Boom and bust: seeds of destruction -- Miracleworkers, or lucky mistakes? -- The all-powerful Fed and its role in inflating the bubble -- Deregulation run amok -- Creative accounting -- The banks and the bubble -- Tax cuts: feeding the frenzy -- Making risk a way of life -- Globalization: early forays -- Enron -- Debunking the myths -- Toward a new democratic idealism: vision and values -- Epilogue: further lessons on how to mismanage the economy

1. United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001
2. United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001
3. Globalization
4. Enron Corp. -- Accounting