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House of Cards A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

William D. Cohan

On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”

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The Daily Stoic

The interviewee found this book about the fall of Bear Stearns fascinating, describing it as having "Shakespearean" qualities due to the characters' rise and fall from power.

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he wrote this fascinating book about the fall of Bear Stearns that I read called House of Cards, a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street in 2009.

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The interviewee found this book about the fall of Bear Stearns fascinating, describing it as having "Shakespearean" qualities due to the characters' rise and fall from power.

"

he wrote this fascinating book about the fall of Bear Stearns that I read called House of Cards, a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street in 2009.

There's something very Shakespearean about these characters that get so big, so successful and then life kind of brings them back down to life like in the bear stern's book.

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