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Chapter 13: Banks as a System — Regulation and Deregulation — Economics 101

Banks don’t operate alone — they lend to each other overnight, share contagion when confidence fails, and live or die by a regulatory framework that has swung between tight and loose for 160 years. How the fed funds market, bank runs, and the Dodd-Frank pendulum fit together.
Chapter 54: Supply-Side Economics — Economics 101

Supply-side economics emerged in the 1970s as a direct response to stagflation — the failure of Keynesian demand management to handle simultaneous high unemployment and high inflation. It argues that tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced government interference unlock productive capacity and grow the economy from the supply side.
Chapter 58: The Great Depression Meets the Great Recession — Economics 101

Two of America’s worst economic catastrophes share a common anatomy: deregulation, easy credit, asset bubbles, and cascading failures. This chapter traces the roots of the Great Recession through securitization and the CDO machine, and connects the 2008 meltdown to lessons—and failures—from the Great Depression.