House of cards
Subtitle: how Wall Street's gamblers broke capitalism
By: William D. Cohan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780141039596
Subjects: Financial institutions; International economic relations; Marche  financier international; Crise financie  re; Institutions financie  res; Bear, Stearns & Co; History
Notes: Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How it happened: ten days in March. The ultimate roach motel; title: The confidence game; title: "Bear Stearns is not in trouble!"; title: The run on the bank; title: The armies of the night; title: Feeding frenzy; title: Total panic; title: The price of moral hazard? $2; title: the Fed comes to the rescue (after the battle is over); title: Mooning at the wake; title: New developments from hell; title: "We're the bad guys"; title: Why it happened: eighty-five years. Cy; title: Ace; title: Jimmy; title: May day; title: Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal; title: The joy of mortgage-backed securities; title: "Bullies always cave"; title: The math whiz and the baseball star; title: "We're all going to a picnic and the tickets are $250 million each"; title: The fish rots from the head; title: The end of the second gilded age. The10-in-10 strategy; title: Cayne CAPs spector; title: Cioffi's bubble; title: "The entire subprime market is toast"; title: "If there's fraud, we're gonna pay"; title: A very stupid decision; title: Nashville; title: the Cayne mutiny; title: Desperate times call for hare-brained schemes.