House of cards : a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street /
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 wor...
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New York :
Doubleday,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- How it happened : ten days in March. The ultimate roach motel
- The confidence game
- "Bear Stearns is not in trouble!"
- The run on the bank
- The armies of the night
- Feeding frenzy
- Total panic
- The price of moral hazard? $2
- The Fed comes to the rescue (after the bubble is over)
- Mooning at the wake
- New developments from hell
- "We're the bad guys"
- Why it happened : eighty-five years. Cy
- Ace
- Jimmy
- May Day
- Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal
- The joy of mortgage-backed securities
- "Bullies always cave"
- The math whiz and the baseball star
- "We're all going to a picnic and the tickets are $250 million each"
- The fish rots from the head
- The end of the second Gilded Age. The 10-in-10 strategy
- Cayne CAPs Spector
- Cioffi's bubble
- "The entire subprime market is toast"
- "If there's fraud, we're gonna pay"
- A very stupid decision
- Nashville
- The Cayne Mutiny
- Desperate times call for hare-brained schemes
- The deluge.
