Table of Contents:

Foreword, by Kai Ryssdal, Host, Marketplace

Introduction: The Financial Corner Store

1. Your Piece of the Action: Stocks, Shares, and Equity Trading
2. Racking It Up: Debt, and Why It’s Not Always a Bad Thing
3. Under the Skin: How a Company Hangs Together
4. Derivatives: Devilish? Destructive? Deadly?
5. Your Jell-O for My Cake: How Swaps Work
6. The Folding Stuff: Money, and How It Makes Its Way Around the World
7. The House Always Wins: The Banking System
8. Loosening the Beltway: The Fed, the Treasury, and How Government Gets Involved
9. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme: Consumer Debt, Securitization, and Shadow Banking
10. Architects of Our Own Destruction: Decline and Recovery in the Financial Markets

Afterword