新书

看完了“Street fighter: The last 72 hours of Bear Stearns, the toughest firm on Wall Street”.

The book is a quick read. There is not much new information given that I’ve read so many books on the financial crisis now. It’s written by Kate Kelly, a journalist. It really goes beyond the 72 hours before the firm got purchased by JPM (how could you fill a 200-page book based on 72 hours of events?) Some interesting anecdote: The father of Andrew Metrick (who is at Yale now) is a senior executive at Bears; Hank Paulson is a Christian Scientist and environmentalist; Jamie Dimon knows a lot about the technical details of accounting.