Chapter 1 Introducing the Book

Chapter 2 Growing Pains: Being Born after Panic and Experiencing Childhood in the Great Depression—December 1913–August 1935

Chapter 3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Splitting from the Treasury in Adolescence and Maturing More—September 1935–January 1970

Chapter 4 Suffering Mid-Life Crises: Confronting Severe Inflation and Financial Meltdown in Adulthood—February 1970–January 2014

Chapter 5 Understanding the Basics from a Contemporary Perspective

Chapter 6 Saying Oops after Assuming the Chairmanship

Chapter 7 Imagining Financial Armageddon, Making Emergency Loans in the Crisis, and Pursuing QE1

Chapter 8 Cruising on QE2, Twisting Again, and Designing Even More Preemptively

Chapter 9 Reaching for QE3 and Then Postponing Tapering

Chapter 10 Taxing and Spending: Taking a Closer Look at Fiscal Policymaking and Communication

Chapter 11 Strengthening Financial Regulations

Chapter 13 Experiencing Deflation or Disinflation around the World

Chapter 14 Concluding the Book