House of cards
Subtitle: how Wall Street's gamblers broke capitalism
By: William D. Cohan
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781846141959; 9781846142635
Subjects: Financial institutions; Capitalism; International economic relations; Bankenkrise; Finanzkrise; Weltwirtschaft; Kreditmarkt; Investment Bank; Übernahme; Bankinsolvenz; Finanzmarktkrise; USA; Welt; Bear Stearns Companies <New York, NY>
Other titles: How Wall Street's gamblers broke capitalism
Description: 'House of Cards' is a narrative about corporate greed on a truly epic scale. Cohan relates how the lack of foresight and regulation in an uncertain economy forced the government and Wall Street to take increasingly desperate and unprecedented measures to stop the carnage before the entire economy melted down.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-456) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. How It Happened: Ten Days in March; title: Ch. 1. The Ultimate Roach Motel; title: Ch. 2. The Confidence Game; title: Ch. 3. "Bear Stearns Is Not in Trouble!"; title: Ch. 4. The Run on the Bank; title: Ch. 5. The Armies of the Night; title: Ch. 6. Feeding Frenzy; title: Ch. 7. Total Panic; title: Ch. 8. The Price of Moral Hazard? $2; title: Ch. 9. The Fed Comes to the Rescue (After the Battle Is Over); title: Ch. 10. Mooning at the Wake; title: Ch. 11. New Developments from Hell; title: Ch. 12. "We're the Bad Guys"; title: pt. II. Why It Happened: Eighty-Five Years; title: Ch. 13. Cy; title: Ch. 14. Ace; title: Ch. 15. Jimmy; title: Ch. 16. May Day; title: Ch. 17. Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal; title: Ch. 18. The Joy of Mortgage-Backed Securities; title: Ch. 19. "Bullies Always Cave"; title: Ch. 20. The Math Whiz and the Baseball Star; title: Ch. 21. "We're All Going to a Picnic and the Tickets Are $250 Million Each"; title: Ch. 22. The Fish Rots from the Head; title: pt. III. The End of the Second Gilded Age; title: Ch. 23. The 10-in-l0 Strategy; title: Ch. 24. Cayne CAPs Spector.