Foreword ix Introduction xi A Few Major Characters xv Chapter 1 The Corporatist Turn in American Regulation 1 The Path to Enactment 3 The Two Goals of the Dodd-Frank Act 4 A Brief Tour of Other Reforms 6 Two Themes That Emerge 8 Fannie Mae Effect 11 Covering Their Tracks 12 Is There Anything to Like? 14 Part I Relearning the Financial Crisis Chapter 2 The Lehman Myth 19 The Stock Narrative 20 Lehman in Context 23 Lehman's Road to Bankruptcy 26 Lehman in Bankruptcy 29 Bear Stearns Counterfactual 31 Road to Chrysler 33 Chrysler Bankruptcy 35 General Motors "Sale" 38 From Myths to Legislative Reality 39 Part II The 2010 Financial Reforms Chapter 3 Geithner, Dodd, Frank, and the Legislative Grinder 43 The Players 44 TARP and the Housing Crisis 47 Road to an East Room Signing 49 Channeling Brandeis: The Volcker Rule 54 The Goldman Moment 56 Chapter 4 Derivatives Reform: Clearinghouses and the Plain-Vanilla Derivative 59 Basic Framework 61 Derivatives and the New Finance 63 The Stout Alternative 66 New Clearinghouses and Exchanges 68 Regulatory Dilemmas of Clearinghouses 69 Disclosure and Data Collection 74 Making It Work? 75 Chapter 5 Banking Reform: Breaking Up Was Too Hard to Do 77 Basic Framework 78 New Designator and Designatees 79 Will the New Capital Standards Work? 82 Contingent Capital Alternative 84 Volcker Rule 85 What Do the Brandeisian Concessions Mean? 91 Office of Minority and Women Inclusion 93 Institutionalizing the Government-Bank Partnership 94 A Happier Story? 95 Repo Land Mine 96 Chapter 6 Unsafe at Any Rate 99 Basic Framework 100 Who is Elizabeth Warren? 102 Toasters and Credit Cards 105 The New Consumer Bureau 106 Mortgage Broker and Securitization Rules 109 Consequences: What to Expect from the New Bureau 111 What It Means for the Government-Bank Partnership 114 Chapter 7 Banking on the FDIC (Resolution Authority I) 117 Does the FDIC Play the Same Role in Both Regimes? 118 How (and How Well) Does FDIC Resolution Work? 122 Moving Beyond the FDIC Analogy 126 Chapter 8 Bailouts, Bankruptcy, or Better? (Resolution Authority II) 129 Basic Framework 130 The Trouble with Bailouts 132 Who Will Invoke Dodd-Frank Resolution, and When? 135 Triggering the New Framework 137 Controlling Systemic Risk 142 Third Objective: Haircuts 145 All Liquidation, All the Time? 148 Part III The Future Chapter 9 Essential Fixes and the New Financial Order 155 What Works and What Doesn't 156 Staying Derivatives in Bankruptcy 158 ISDA and Its Discontent 163 Other Bankruptcy Reforms for Financial Institutions 168 Plugging the Chrysler Hole in Bankruptcy 170 Bankruptcy to the Rescue 173 Chapter 10 An International Solution? 175 Basic Framework 176 Problems of Cross-Border Cases 177 Scholarly Silver Bullets 181 Dodd-Frank's Contribution to Cross-Border Issues 182 New Living Wills 185 A Simple Treaty Might Do 186 Risk of a Clearinghouse Crisis 188 Reinvigorating the Rule of Law 189 Conclusion 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 205 Acknowledgments 211 About the Author 212 Index 213.