1. Introduction : the panic of August -- 2. Finance : The new real economy? -- 3. Bullnomics : its favoritism and fictions -- 4. Securitization : the insecurity of it all -- 5. Peak oil : a potential pivot of the 2010s -- 6. The politics of evasion : debt, finance, and oil -- 7. The global crisis of American capitalism -- Appendix: Global public opinion and the loss of respect for the United States, 2003-7.