Down the up escalator: how the 99 percent live

Introduction: What caused the Great Recession (in three scenes and one phone call)

Our jobs.

The pink slip club

Down by the banks of the Ohio

Innovating the jobs away

Even bankers can be unemployed

Our homes.

Show me the mortgage

Bubble birth control

Underwater and up the creek

Strategic default

An upright man

The house belongs to them

An old-fashioned foreclosure with a modern twist

Our savings.

Three investors

Rich or poor, it's good to have money

The perfect twofer

Down is a dangerous direction

To be continued ...

Influences, debts, and love.