Preface : The political economics of deception
Introduction : the panic of August
Finance : The new real economy?
Bullnomics : its favoritism and fictions
Securitization : the insecurity of it all
Peak oil : a potential pivot of the 2010s
The politics of evasion : debt, finance, and oil
The global crisis of American capitalism
Appendix: Global public opinion and the loss of respect for the United States, 2003-7.