- Investment banking, Financial crises, Bear, Stearns & Co, Bank failures
'House of Cards' is a narrative about corporate greed on a truly epic scale. Cohan relates how the lack of foresight and regulation in an uncertain economy forced the government and Wall Street to take increasingly desperate and unprecedented measures to stop the carnage before the entire economy melted down.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- William D. Cohan
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Allen Lane
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846142635
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