House of Cards
The fall of the investment bank Bear Stearns can tell us a lot about how we ended up in the current recession. Writer and former banker William Cohan gives Kurt his take on the narrative of the new economy. Cohan’s new book is House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
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