House of cards : a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street
(2009)
By:
Cohan, William D
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
332.66/COHAN,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2009]
©2009
©2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
468 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385528269, 0385528264
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system