16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xiii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Part I. Silicon Culture
6. 1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley 2
7. 2. Diary: Google Invades 16
8. 3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not 26
9. 4. Dead End on Silk Road 56
10. Part II. Brave New Economic World
11. 5. A Tale of Two Londons 78
12. 6. London’s Laundry Business 100
13. 7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King 104
14. 8. Invisible Child 136
15. 9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards 152
16. 10. Maximizing Shareholder Value 160
17. Part III. Frenzied Finance
18. 11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag 172
19. 12. Here’s Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical 180
20. 13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008 186
21. 14. Gross vs. El-Erian 198
22. 15. Secret Currency Traders’ Club Devised Biggest Market’s Rates 206
23. 16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney 222
24. 17. How the Case Against Bank of America CEO Fizzled 232
25. Part IV. Unhealthy Business
26. 18. Use Only as Directed 240
27. 19. Merchants of Meth 272
28. 20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food 292
29. 21. League of Denial 322
30. Part V. Creative Destruction
31. 22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand 384
32. 23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car 400
33. 24. The Death of the Funeral Business 426
34. 25. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson’s Comeback Odyssey 440
35. 26. A Toast Story 452
36. Part VI. The Politics of Business
37. 27. Washington’s Robust Market for Attacks, Half-Truths 466
38. 28. He Who Makes the Rules 480
39. 29. A Word from Our Sponsor 514
40. 30. Amazon’s (Not So) Secret War on Taxes 528
41. 31. How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers 548
42. Contributors 561
43. Permissions 567