Plutocrats

Deneuve, Catherine, 116

Deng Xiaoping, 156

dentists, 101, 107

Depression, Great, xiii, 9, 13, 29, 115

Depression, Long, 7, 9, 41

deregulation, 220–23, 225, 227

derivatives business, 212, 221

Detroit, Mich., 184, 280

Treaty of, 17, 18

DiCaprio, Leonardo, 108

DiFuria, Joan, 176

Digital Sky Technologies (DST), 66, 164

Dimon, Jamie, 244–45, 253–55, 257–60

Djilas, Milovan, 89–90, 266

DLA Piper, 105, 106

DLD (Digital-Life-Design), 68

Doll, Bob, 5

dopamine, 147

Doriot, Georges, 120–22

Dorn, David, 23–24, 27

Dow Jones Industrial Average, 6

Dreyfuss, Richard, 127

Druckenmiller, Stan, 143

Drucker, Peter, 88, 117–18

Drummond, Don, 216–17

Dubai, 63

Duggan, James, 249

E

Easterlin, Richard, 31

eBay, 171, 183

Ecole Polytechnique, 273

economic crisis of 2008,

see financial crisis of 2008

Economist, 209

Edison, Thomas, 38

education, 45, 47, 61, 91, 92

college, 47–50, 52, 61–62, 283

elite, 48–49, 52, 61–62, 83, 283

philanthro-capitalists and, 75, 76

race between technology and, 47–48

Einstein, Albert, 124–25, 126

electrocardiographs, 157–58

El-Erian, Mohamed, 65, 251–52

Emanuel, Rahm, 242, 258

employment:

insecurity in, 53

unemployment, 186–87, 238, 240, 265

wages in, see wages

Engels, Friedrich, 39

England, 63, 81, 139, 214–15, 227

industrial revolution in, 95

Jefferson on, 11–12

recession in, 57

summer social season in, 57, 67

entertainment, 100, 123, 130

movies, 98, 100, 109, 127–30

music, 109–10, 126–27, 170–71

entitlement, sense of, 239

entrepreneurs, 167

Ethan Allen, 185, 186

Eugenie, Empress, 114

evidence-based vs. ideological worldviews, 93–94

Evon, Michael, 232, 233, 234

extractive societies, 279–81, 283

F

Facebook, 47, 104, 146, 147, 163–66, 171, 175

Fake, Caterina, 172

fame, 123, 128

Fannie Mae, 271

fashion designers, 113–16

Faust, Drew, 49–50, 267

Fear Index, The (Harris), 229

Ferguson, Niall, 268

finance industry, 119–22, 129–30

financial crisis of 2008, 15, 28, 37, 63, 139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 152–54, 169–70, 178, 189, 214, 217, 220, 223, 254, 261, 269

blame for, 242

Bloomberg/Schumer/McKinsey report and, 212–14

regulation and, 212–14, 218, 253

financial deregulation, 220–23, 225, 227

Financial Services Forum, 253

Financial Stability Board (FSB), 253

Financial Times, 267

Fink, Larry, 166–67

Finland, 3

Firestone, 168–69

Firestone, Harvey, 168

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 4, 43

Flaherty, Jim, 217

Flickr, 172

Flip, 174