Table of Contents
Translator's Note xi
Preface 1
January 2012
I Why Save the Bankers? 2008-10
Why Save the Bankers? 17
September 30, 2008
A Trillion Dollars 21
October 28, 2008
Obama and FDR: A Misleading Analogy 25
January 20, 2009
Profits, Wages, and Inequality 28
March 17, 2009
The Irish Disaster 32
April 14, 2009
Central Banks at Work 36
May 12, 2009
Forgotten Inequalities 40
June 9, 2009
Mysteries of the Carbon Tax 44
July 7, 2009
Lessons for the Tax System from the Bettencourt Affair 48
September 8, 2009
Enough of GDP, Let's Go Back to National Income 52
October 6, 2009
Down with Idiotic Taxes! 56
November 3, 2009
Who Will Be the Winners of the Crisis? 59
December 1, 2009
With or Without a Platform? 62
December 29, 2009
Record Bank Profits: A Matter of Politics 66
February 23, 2010
II No, the Greeks Aren't Lazy 2010-12
No, the Greeks Aren't Lazy 73
March 23, 2010
Europe Against the Markets 77
May 18, 2010
Rethinking Central Banks 81
June 15, 2010
Does Liliane Bettencourt Pay Taxes? 84
July 13, 2010
Toward a Calm Debate on the Wealth Tax 88
October 12, 2010
Should We Fear the Fed? 92
November 9, 2010
The Scandal of the Irish Bank Bailout 95
December 7, 2010
Japan: Private Wealth, Public Debts 99
April 5, 2011
Greece: For a European Bank Tax 102
June 28, 2011
Poor as Jobs 105
October 25, 2011
Rethinking the European Project-and Fast 109
November 22, 2011
Protectionism: A Useful Weapon … for Lack of Anything Better 114
December 20, 2011
Francois Hollande, a New Roosevelt for Europe? 118
May 8, 2012
Federalism: The Only Solution 122
June 5, 2012
The What and Why of Federalism 126
July 4, 2012
III Action, Fast! 2012-15
Action, Fast! 133
September 25, 2012
Merkhollande and the Eurozone: Shortsighted Selfishness 137
December 18, 2012
The Italian Elections: Europe's Responsibility 141
February 26, 2013
For a European Wealth Tax 145
March 26, 2013
Slavery: Reparations Through Transparency 149
May 21, 2013
A New Europe to Overcome the Crisis 153
June 18, 2013
Can Growth Save Us? 157
September 24, 2013
IMF: Still a Ways to Go! 161
October 22, 2013
Libé: What Does It Mean to Be Free? 165
February 25, 2014
On Oligarchy in America 170
April 21, 2014
To the Polls, Citizens! 174
May 20, 2014
The Exorbitant Cost of Being a Small Country 178
September 8, 2014
Capital in Hong Kong? 182
November 3, 2014
Capital According to Carlos Fuentes 186
December 1, 2014
2015: What Shocks Can Get Europe Moving? 189
December 29, 2014
Spreading the Democratic Revolution to the Rest of Europe 193
January 26, 2015
The Double Hardship of the Working Class 197
March 23, 2015
Must Debts Always Be Paid Back? 201
April 20, 2015
A Crackdown Alone Will Solve Nothing 204
Le Monde, November 21, 2015
Index 208