Explores the ways the concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media.

Financial speculations: Contested constructions of markets and crisis Graham Murdock   Part 1: Insider talk   Chapter 1: Financial insider talk in the city of London Aeron Davis   Chapter 2: Funny in a rich man’s world: The contradictory conceptions of money in forex trading Peter A. Thompson   Chapter 3: Stating support for the city: Thirty years of budget talk Catherine Walsh   Part 2: News talk    Chapter 4: More of the same: News, economic growth and the recycling of conventional wisdom Justin Lewis and Richard Thomas   Chapter 5: Conflict of interest disclosure in economics: Will journalists aid the cause? George DeMartino   Chapter 6: Trouble in the markets: Differentiation in the Norwegian financial news landscape Nina Kvalheim and Helle Sjøvaag   Chapter 7: Covering the crisis: Politics and culture Jostein Gripsrud   Part 3: Screen talk   Chapter 8: No guns, no rules, just pure capitalism! Hollywood’s portraits of Wall Street Anja Peltzer   Chapter 9: System down! Three documentary accounts of crisis John Corner   Part 4: Everyday talk    Chapter 10: ‘I just hope the whole thing won’t collapse’: ‘Understanding’ and ‘overcoming’ the EU financial crisis from the citizen’s perspective Andreas Hepp, Swantje Lingenberg, Monika Elsler, Johanna Möller, Anne Mollen and Anke Offerhaus   Afterword: Business as usual and its discontents Graham Murdock