| Description |
468 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. I. How It Happened: Ten Days in March -- Ch. 1. The Ultimate Roach Motel -- Ch. 2. The Confidence Game -- Ch. 3. "Bear Stearns Is Not in Trouble!" -- Ch. 4. The Run on the Bank -- Ch. 5. The Armies of the Night -- Ch. 6. Feeding Frenzy -- Ch. 7. Total Panic -- Ch. 8. The Price of Moral Hazard? $2 -- Ch. 9. The Fed Comes to the Rescue (After the Battle Is Over) -- Ch. 10. Mooning at the Wake -- Ch. 11. New Developments from Hell -- Ch. 12. "We're the Bad Guys" -- Pt. II. Why It Happened: Eighty-Five Years -- Ch. 13. Cy -- Ch. 14. Ace -- Ch. 15. Jimmy -- Ch. 16. May Day -- Ch. 17. Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal -- Ch. 18. The Joy of Mortgage-Backed Securities -- Ch. 19. "Bullies Always Cave" -- Ch. 20. The Math Whiz and the Baseball Star -- Ch. 21. "We're All Going to a Picnic and the Tickets Are $250 Million Each" -- Ch. 22. The Fish Rots from the Head -- Pt. III. The End of the Second Gilded Age -- Ch. 23. The 10-in-l0 Strategy -- Ch. 24. Cayne CAPs Spector |
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Ch. 25. Cioffi's Bubble -- Ch. 26. "The Entire Subprime Market Is Toast" -- Ch. 27. "If There's Fraud, We're Gonna Pay" -- Ch. 28. A Very Stupid Decision -- Ch. 29. Nashville -- Ch. 30. The Cayne Mutiny -- Ch. 31. Desperate Times Call for Hare-Brained Schemes -- Epilogue: The Deluge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-456) and index |
| Subject |
Bear, Stearns & Co.
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Investment banking -- United States.
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Bank failures -- United States.
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Financial crises -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781846142635 |
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