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how Wall Street's gamblers broke capitalism

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An edition of House of cards (2010)

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how Wall Street's gamblers broke capitalism

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
592

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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 battle 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. The10-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.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
332.10973
Library of Congress
HG2491 .C64 2010, HG181

The Physical Object

Pagination
592 pages ;
Number of pages
592

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26398515M
Internet Archive
houseofcardshoww00will
ISBN 10
0141039590
ISBN 13
9780141039596
OCLC/WorldCat
458730236

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