TY - SOUND AU - Cohan,William D. TI - House of cards: a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street SN - 9780141039596 SN - 978014103 U1 - 332.660973 COH 2009 22 PY - 2009/// CY - [Old Saybrook, Conn.] PB - Tantor Audio KW - Bear, Stearns & Co KW - Investment banking KW - United States KW - Bank failures KW - Financial crises N1 - Unabridged; Read by Alan Sklar N2 - 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 -