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Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- On the ground -- The sharp, sudden decline of America's middle class / Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone -- The great American foreclosure story : the struggle for justice and a place to call home / Paul Kiel -- Propublica -- Bad medicine -- Bad to the bone : a medical horror story / Mina Kimes -- Fortune -- Prescription for addiction / Thomas Catan, Devlin Barrett, and Timothy W. Martin -- Wall Street Journal -- Anemia drugs made billions, but at what cost? / Peter Whoriskey -- Washington Post -- Big business -- Making the world's largest airline fly / Drake Bennett -- Businessweek -- Gusher / Steve Coll -- The New Yorker -- Bad business -- Vast Mexico bribery case hushed up by Wal-Mart after top-level struggle / David Barstow -- New york times -- Chesapeake and rival plotted to suppress land prices / Brian Grow, Joshua Schneyer, and Janet Roberts -- Reuters -- Fear fans flames for chemical makers / Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe -- Chicago Tribune -- Media and marketing -- His. Hers. / Jessica Pressler -- New York -- Top five ways bleacher report rules the world! / Joe Eskenazi -- San Francisco Weekly -- Why India's newspaper industry is thriving / Ken Auletta -- The New Yorker -- The frequent fliers who flew too much / Ken Bensinger -- Los Angeles Times -- Big think -- Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment / Steve Randy Waldman -- Interfluidity -- The naked and the Ted / Evgeny Morozov -- The National Review -- Adventures in finance -- Wall Street bonus withdrawal means trading aspen for coupons / Max Abelson -- Bloomberg -- The tale of a whale of a fail / Matt Levine -- Dealbreaker -- Case against bear and JPMorgan provides little cheer / Bethany McLean -- Reuters -- How ECB chief outflanked German foe in fight for euro / Brian Blackstone and Marcus Walker -- Wall Street Journal -- From the trouble is the banks / edited by Mark Greif, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle -- Please don't harass my father any further / Deena DeNaro -- Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs / Greg Smith -- New york times -- Death takes a policy : how a lawyer exploited the fine print and found himself -- Facing federal charges / Jake Bernstein -- Propublica -- Brave new world -- How companies learn your secrets / Charles Duhigg -- New york times magazine -- Glass works : how corning created the ultrathin, ultrastrong material of the future / Bryan Gardiner -- Wired -- Skilled work, without the worker / John Markoff -- New York Times -- I was a warehouse wage slave / Mac McClelland -- Mother jones -- In China, human costs are built into an iPad / Charles Duhigg and David Barboza -- New York Times -- How apple and Amazon security flaws led to my EPIC hacking / Mat Honan -- Wired -- Permissions -- List of contributors

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