Boom and bust : seeds of destruction -- Miracle workers, 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.