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Street Fighters The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

By Kate Kelly

The acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller is updated for the second anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns. Expanding with fresh detail from her acclaimed front-page series in "The Wall Street Journal," Kelly captures every sight, sound, and smell of Bear's three final days.

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Book Information

Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 02/23/2010
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781591843184
ISBN-10: 1591843189
Language: Eng

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January 13, 2011

The article below was printed in last year's In the Books—our annual review of the best in the business genre. It my (possibly ill-advised) attempt to look at how some of the books published in 2009 tackled the macroeconomic issues, with a (possibly ill-advised) splash of Candide thrown in awkwardly, for emphasis. If you don't feel like reading the entire essay on the topic, you can skip to the end of the post and see F. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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The acclaimed New York Times bestseller--an explosive, inside look at the demise of a Wall Street giant The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that rippled around the world. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire sale price? How could the street fighters who ran Bear so aggressively miscalculate so completely? Expanding with fresh detail from her highly praised front-page series in The Wall Street Journal, reporter Kate Kelly captures every sight, sound, and smell of Bear's three final days. She also shows how Bear's top executives descended into civil war as the mortgage crisis began to brew. A breathtaking piece of US history, Street Fighters is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the 2008 financial crisis--and for understanding how the actions of one Wall Street firm have affected the world to this day.

About the Author

Kate Kelly is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a former reporter for Time magazine and the New York Observer. She attracted international attention for her three-part series of articles on Bear Stearns, which ran on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal in May 2008.

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