"This volume narrates the financial history of the United States during a period of great upheaval in the early part of the twenty-first century. It is divided into three chronological sections: the first section describes the recovery of financial markets after the Great Recession. It begins...

1. Manipulation : some history -- 2. Market manipulation and the New Deal legislation -- 3. Postwar manipulation and speculation -- 4. Manipulation of commodity prices in a time of inflation -- 5. Manipulation setbacks under the federal securities laws -- 6. The battle over OTC derivatives -- 7....