Table of Contents
Exhibits
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Creating Financial Storms
Part I
Chapter 1: Reducing Risk
Part II
Chapter 2: Black Monday 1987
Chapter 3: Replicating Options
Chapter 4: Portfolio Insurance and Futures Markets
Chapter 5: Portfolio Insurance and the Crash
Chapter 6: After the 1987 CrashOptions
Part III
Chapter 7: Options, Hedge Funds, and the Volatility of 1998
Chapter 8: Long-Term Capital Management
Chapter 9: Long-Term Capital Management Postmortem
Part IV
Chapter 10: The Credit Crisis and Recession, 2007-2009
Chapter 11: Blowing Bubbles
Chapter 12: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chapter 13: Securitization and the Housing Bubble
Chapter 14: Securitization and the Credit Crisis
Part V
Chapter 15: After the Storm, 2010-2018
Chapter 16: The European Debt Crisis
Chapter 17: Illusions of Safety and Market Meltdowns
Chapter 18: Taming the Tempest
Appendix A: Foreshadowing the Crises: The Crash of 1929
Appendix B: Primer on Bonds, Stocks, and Derivatives
Appendix C: The Debate on Portfolio Insurance
Appendix D: Derivatives Disasters in the 1990s
Appendix E: Bruce Jacobs's Research Objectivity Standards Proposal
Acronyms
Glossary
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index