Includes glossary.

Pt. 1. A brand-new kind of crash. Riding the wild bull / Stephen Koepp -- The crash of '87: Chicago's "shadow markets" led free fall in a plunge that began right at opening / Scott McMurray and Robert L. Rose -- From the Brady Commission Report -- From Black Monday: the catastrophe of October 19, 1987 ... and beyond / Tim Metz -- From Liar's poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis -- The lonely feeling of small investors / Stephen Labaton -- Yuppies' last rites readied / Richard J. Meislin -- From What goes up / Eric J. Weiner -- Did the computer cause the crash? / Lester C. Thurow -- Crash-proofing the market; a lot of expert opinions but few results / Terri Thompson -- Short circuits / The Economist -- Crash course: Black Monday's biggest lesson: don't run scared / Robert J. Shiller -- From After the Crash / Franklin Edwards -- pt. 2. Foreigners gone wild. Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson -- Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times -- A Thai business wonders, will it all crumble? / David Holley -- Reporter associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman -- From Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson -- Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist -- Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis -- From Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs -- How the eggheads cracked / Michael Lewis -- 10 years after the Asian crisis, we're not out of the woods yet / Joseph Stiglitz -- Asia's long road to recovery / Keith Bradsher -- Tracking an online trend, and a route to suicide / Choe Sang-Hun --

pt. 3. The new new panic. Bigger Netscape offering / New York Times -- Underwriters raise offer price for Netscape Communication / New York Times -- With internet cachet, not profit, a new stock is Wall Street's darling / Laurence Zuckerman -- How net fever sent shares of a firm on a 3-day joy ride / Carrick Mollenkamp and Karen Lundegaard -- "New new money," from The New New Thing / Michael Lewis -- Cooling it: Wall Street firms try to keep internet mania from ending badly / Rebecca Buckman and Aaron Lucchetti -- Burning up / Jack Willoughby -- From Dot.con: The greatest story ever sold / John Cassidy -- The high price of research: caveat investor: stock and research analysts covering dot-coms aren't as independent as you think / Erick Schonfeld -- Fumble.com: internet companies threw millions into the air at the Super Bowl. They're still pretending they scored a touchdown / Katharine Mieszkowski -- Meet the dumbest dot-com in the world / Mark Gimein -- The financial page: how mountebanks became moguls / James Surowiecki -- Dot coms: what have we learned? / Jerry Useem -- In defense of the boom / Michael Lewis -- pt. 4. The people's panic. "How to get rich in real estate," from Dave Barry's Money secrets / Dave Barry -- Shaky foundation: rising home prices cast appraisers in a harsh light / John Hechinger -- The next crash / John Cassidy -- As bubble speculation rises, industry sees little fear / Robert Julavits -- This is the sound of a bubble bursting / Peter S. Goodman -- Opening statement of Chairman Christopher Dodd: hearing on "Mortgage market turmoil: causes and consequences" / Christopher Dodd -- Subprime homesick blues / James Surowiecki -- Triple-A failure / Roger Lowenstein -- from "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" / Larry Roberts -- Bear CEO's handling of crisis raises issues / Kate Kelly -- What Wall Street's CEOs don't know can kill you / Michael Lewis -- The Bear flu: how it spread / David Henry and Matthew Goldstein -- A Wall Street trader draws some subprime lessons / Michael Lewis -- After the money's gone / Paul Krugman -- Hedge funds come unstuck on truth-twisting, lies / Matthew Lynn -- Trader made billions on subprime / Gregory Zuckerman.