TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohan,William D.
TI  - House of cards: a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street 
SN  - 9780385528269
U1  - 332.660973 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Bear, Stearns & Co
KW  - Investment banking
KW  - United States
KW  - Bank failures
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-456) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -