Panic: the story of modern financial insanity

I. 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 & 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 -- 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 -- II. Foreigners gone wild. Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson -- Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times (NYT) -- 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 ; Interview with Jeffrey D Sachs -- Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist -- Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis -- 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 --

III. The new new panic. Bigger Netscape offering / NYT

Underwriters raise offer price for Netscape Communication / NYT

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 & 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 & Aaron Lucchetti

Burning up / Jack Willoughby

from Dot.com: 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? / Jeremy Useem

In defense of the boom / Michael Lewis

IV. THE PEOPLE'S PANIC. How to get rich in real estate / 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 Charman Christopher Dodd: hearing on "Mortgage market turmoil: causes and consequences"

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 & 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.