Midtown meltdown : the collapse of free-market capitalism -- Hyperdrive blitzkrieg : Wall Street hubris kills the bailout, enrages America -- Financial Krakatoa : from the banking explosion to a volcanic winter of recession -- White shoes : how deregulation made the investment banks all-powerful -- Subprime : how the low-wage economy fuelled high-risk finance -- The big freeze : the credit crunch and the inflation spike of 2007-8 -- Helping is futile : the life and death of neoliberal ideology -- The disrupted wave : on the eve of depression or a new long upswing?