The Nature of Manias, Bubbles and Crashes: Introduction.- Value Trading vs. Momentum Trading.- The Rise of Manias and Bubbles.- Stages in the Boom-Bubble-Bust Sequence.- Fueling the Boom - Role of the Media.- Bubbles, Wealth and Inflation.- Speculations, Bootstraps and Swindles.- The Rationality of Investors, Bankers and Experts?.- Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System.- Fiscal Policy and Taxes.- Inequality.- Debt.- Deposit Insurance.- Regulation, Deregulation and No Regulation.- Pension Plans.- The Valuation of Common Stocks.- Internal Feedback and Endogenous Risk.- When the Bubble Pops.- A Short History of Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: The New World.- Florida Land Boom of the 1920s.- The Stock Market and the Economy of the 1920s.- The Great Depression of the 1930s.- The Savings and Loan Scandal of the 1980s.- The Bull Market of 1982-1995.- The Crash of 1987.- The Dot.Com Mania.- The Debt-Driven Asset Bubble Era of 1982-2013.- Other Bubbles and Swindles of the late 1990s and 2000s. The Sub-Prime Real Estate Boom 1998-2007.- The Real Estate Boom of 2013-2014.- Japan and East Asia.- The Next Bubble.