Preface -- Productivity, compound interest and poverty -- The road to debt serfdom -- The economics of austerity -- The politics of debt deflation in Europe -- The coming American debt deflation -- The end game: government bailouts -- Forecasting the Obama Administration -- Financing the war, financing the world -- An insider spills the beans on offshore banking centers -- Progress and its enemies -- Financial predators versus labor, industry and democracy -- How do we fix this mess? -- Reforming the financial and tax system.