Financial corner store -- Your piece of the action: stocks, shares, and equity trading -- Racking it up: debt, and why it's not always a bad thing -- Under the skin: how a company hangs together -- Derivatives: devilish? destructive? deadly? -- Your jell-o for my cake: how swaps work -- Folding stuff: money, and how it makes its way around the world -- House always wins: the banking system -- Loosening the beltway: the Fed, the Treasury, and how government gets involved -- Gimme, gimme, gimme: consumer debt, securitization, and shadow banking -- Architects of our own destruction: decline and recovery in the financial markets.