House of Cards
Subtitle: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: March 10, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780385528269
Subjects: Business & Investing -- Biography & History -- Company Profiles; Business & Investing -- Finance -- Corporate Finance; Professional & Technical -- Accounting & Finance -- Finance
Description: 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.