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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
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April 9, 2009; author guest and book mentioned April 28, 2011

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judy
Jan 12, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: history
This is probably the 12th book I've read out of the hundreds written about the market meltdown. I'm still clueless on exactly why everything crashed but I feel better. This book demonstrated that very few of the Wall Street big boys understand what went on either. Many just assumed their underlings knew the score. This book, in particular, begins at the beginning--the demise of Bear Stearns. That's the first half of the book. The second half analyzes the founding and culture of one of the most s ...more
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Mar 11, 2009 marked it as to-read
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