The city too big to fail -- Lindsay and the Great Recession that was -- Greed is good -- The myth of manufacturing -- Structural not cyclical -- Making New York safe for commerce -- Immigration saves the neighborhoods -- All that glitters: the dot.com boom -- The forgotten recession -- Disaster strikes -- Olympic dreams -- If you build it they will come -- Trickle-down economics -- The biggest crash of all -- Three sectors to the rescue -- The end of the New York era?