Introduction: Inside Wall Street's Black Hole 3 --
Part I A Brand-New Kind of Crash --
"Riding the Wild Bull" / Stephen Koepp 14 --
"The Crash of '87: Chicago's 'Shadow Markets' Led Free Fall in a Plunge That Began Right at Opening" / Scott McMurray, Robert L. Rose 20 --
From the Brady Commission Report 25 --
from Black Monday: The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987...and Beyond / Tim Metz 30 --
from Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis 36 --
"The Lonely Feeling of Small Investors" / Stephen Labaton 43 --
"Yuppies' Last Rites Readied" / Richard J. Meislin 47 --
from What Goes Up / Eric J. Weiner 50 --
"Did the Computer Cause the Crash?" / Lester C. Thurow 54 --
"Crash-Proofing the Market; A Lot of Expert Opinions, but Few Results" / Terri Thompson 57 --
"Short Circuits" / The Economist 62 --
"Crash Course: Black Monday's Biggest Lesson-Don't Run Scared" / Robert J. Shiller 65 --
from After the Crash / Franklin Edwards 71 --
Part II Foreigners Gone Wild --
"Mutual Funds Quarterly Report; The Forecast Looks Brighter for Adventure Travel" / Reed Abelson 79 --
"Thailand Warns Currency Speculators" / The New York Times 82 --
"A Thai Business Wonders, Will It All Crumble?" / David Holley 83 --
Reporter Associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman 86 --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson 96 --
"Finance and Economics: A Detour or a Derailment?" / The Economist 106 --
"Pulling Russia's Chain" / Michael Lewis 110 --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs 113 --
"How the Eggheads Cracked" / Michael Lewis 124 --
"10 Years After the Asian Crisis, We're Not Out of the Woods Yet" / Joseph Stiglitz 145 --
"Asia's Long Road to Recovery" / Keith Bradsher 148 --
"Tracking an Online Trend, and a Route to Suicide" / Choe Sang-Hun 153 --
Part III New New Panic --
"Bigger Netscape Offering" / The New York Times 162 --
"Underwriters Raise Offer Price for Netscape Communication" / The New York Times 163 --
"With Internet Cachet, Not Profit, a New Stock is Wall St.'s Darling" / Laurence Zuckerman 165 --
"How Net Fever Sent Shares of a Firm on 3-Day Joy Ride" / Carrick Mollenkamp, Karen Lundegaard 169 --
"New New Money," from The New New Thing / Michael Lewis 176 --
"Cooling It: Wall Street Firms Try to Keep Internet Mania from Ending Badly" / Rebecca Buckman, Aaron Lucchetti 186 --
"Burning Up" / Jack Willoughby 193 --
from Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold / John Cassidy 208 --
"The High Price of Research: Caveat Investor: Stock and Research Analysts Covering Dot-Coms Aren't as Independent as You Think" / Erick Schonfeld 216 --
"Fumble.com: Internet Companies Threw Millions into the Air at the Super Bowl. They're Still Pretending They Scored a Touchdown" / Katharine Mieszkowski 219 --
"Meet the Dumbest Dot-Com in the World" / Mark Gimein 228 --
"The Financial Page: How Mountebanks Became Moguls" / James Surowiecki 231 --
"Dot Coms: What Have We Learned?" / Jerry Useem 234 --
"In Defense of the Boom" / Michael Lewis 239 --
Part IV People's Panic --
"How to Get Rich in Real Estate," from Dave Barry's Money Secrets / Dave Barry 264 --
"Shaky Foundation: Rising Home Prices Cast Appraisers in a Harsh Light" / John Hechinger 276 --
"The Next Crash" / John Cassidy 283 --
"As Bubble Speculation Rises, Industry Sees Little Fear" / Robert Julavits 294 --
"This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting" / Peter S. Goodman 299 --
Opening Statement of Chairman Christopher dodd-Hearing on "Mortgage Market Turmoil: Causes and Consequences" / Christopher Dodd 308 --
"Subprime Homesick Blues" / James Surowiecki 313 --
"Triple-A Failure" / Roger Lowenstein 316 --
from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" / Larry Roberts 330 --
"Bear CEO's Handling of Crisis Raises Issues" / Kate Kelly 332 --
"What Wall Street's CEOs Don't Know Can Kill You" / Michael Lewis 341 --
"The Bear Flu: How It Spread" / David Henry, Matthew Goldstein 345 --
"A Wall Street Trader Draws Some Subprime Lessons" / Michael Lewis 350 --
"After the Money's Gone" / Paul Krugman 353 --
"Hedge Funds Come Unstuck on Truth-Twisting, Lies" / Matthew Lynn 356 --
"Trader Made Billions on Subprime" / Gregory Zuckerman 359.
