House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

by William D. Cohan

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On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase. Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. What went wrong? In "House of Cards", bestselling author and former investment banker William Cohan gives the reader a front-row seat at Wall Street's catastrophic unravelling at the seams, and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Through the prism of Bear Stearns, he shows how a combination of...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385528264
  • ISBN13 9780385528269
  • Publish Date 10 March 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
  • Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 468
  • Language English