The day after I was assigned this book review, I was talking with two friends, Derek and Corbin. Lehman Brothers had just gone bankrupt and Merrill Lynch had been bought out by Bank of America. Derek was somewhat upset by all the coverage he had seen about this. "The Dow is at its lowest in six years," he complained. Corbin replied, "Since 2002? I don't remember things in 2002 being all that bad." The following week I was talking to a co-worker about this and she said, "2002 was awful." Her husband is a financial adviser. Those conversations amount to a confirmation of one of Jim Stanford's key points: everyone has a different stake in how capitalism works.