Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xiii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Part I. On the Ground
6. 1. The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America’s Middle Class 1
7. 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story 35
8. Part II. Bad Medicine
9. 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story 95
10. 4. Prescription for Addiction 123
11. 5. Anemia Drugs Made Billions, but at What Cost? 133
12. Part III. Big Business
13. 6. Making the World’s Largest Airline Fly 151
14. 7. Gusher 167
15. Part IV. Bad Business
16. 8. Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle 191
17. 9. Chesapeake and Rival Plotted to Suppress Land Prices 221
18. 10. Fear Fans Flames for Chemical Makers 235
19. Part V. Media and Marketing
20. 11. His. Hers. 249
21. 12. Top Five Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World! 265
22. 13. Why India’s Newspaper Industry Is Thriving 281
23. 14. The Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much 305
24. Part VI. Big Think
25. 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment 315
26. 16. The Naked and the TED 327
27. Part VII. Adventures in Finance
28. 17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons 347
29. 18. The Tale of a Whale of a Fail 357
30. 19. Case Against Bear and JPMorgan Provides Little Cheer 371
31. 20. How ECB Chief Outflanked German Foe in Fight for Euro 377
32. 21. From The Trouble Is the Banks 387
33. 22. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs 397
34. 23. Death Takes a Policy 403
35. Part VIII. Brave New World
36. 24. How Companies Learn Your Secrets 421
37. 25. Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future 445
38. 26. Skilled Work, Without the Worker 459
39. 27. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave 471
40. 28. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad 495
41. 29. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking 515
42. Permissions 527
43. Contributors 533