|  | Author: Kate Kelly
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 7093
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1591842735
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.660973
EAN: 9781591842736
ASIN: 1591842735
Publication Date: May 12, 2009
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 Kate, give up writing and get into business - you're brilliant! June 5, 2009
J. T. Murphy (Jazz heaven, NJ, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kate has some of the best insight in the business. She is sharp, direct, and tough. She really should get into the business rather than just write about it. Check out her interview on Charlie Rose - she is tops!
Good insight into interaction between Bear, Treasury and the Fed June 4, 2009
Thomas Grover (Naples, Florida)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book very much. I appreciated the behind the scenes look at not only the various players from Bear Stearns but the interplay between Bear, the Government, and individuals such as Bernanke, Dimon, and Paulson. The book gives you a greater appreciation as to how the current crisis happened, and makes you wonder why we ever paid taxes to support the Financial Regulatory System. In this case, the SEC, which comes across as totally asleep at the switch.
 Just Another Useless Hindsight Book - Don't Waste Your Time or Money May 29, 2009
Dave
3 out of 20 found this review helpful
Kelly is a Wall Street hack who works for the Wall Street Journal. She has no real insight about what happened at Bear Stearns. If you want to know what happened, ask Schwartz.
I don't know you would care anyway. It isn't going to get your money back, People need to stop buying into the hindsight drama and start rewarding real experts who wrote books trying to warn investors about this mess.
You'd think investors might want to spend their time and money on books written by financial experts who actually predicted this mess.
Willim Cohan is another useless guy with his own book now, AFTER IT'S TOO LATE. Like Kelly, he is just another of the hundreds looking to make money from this mess. But ask yourself this question: how do these books help you navigate this financial storm? THEY DON'T. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.
 Read "House of Cards" instead May 27, 2009
Rowen B. Bell (Chicago)
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
I'd read Cohan's "House of Cards" prior to reading Kelly's "Street Fighters", and I found the former book to be far more insightful and comprehensive. If you only want to read one book on the Bear Stearns crisis, go read "House of Cards". If you've already read that book and are eager for additional information on the crisis, you can consider checking "Street Fighters" out of the library or waiting for the paperback, but don't spend the money for the hardcover -- I wish I hadn't.
Thrilling Read but One Wishes for Deeper Analysis May 27, 2009
I. Martinez-Ybor (Miami, FL USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ms. Kelly's book saw me most amusingly through an undisturbed day of jury duty (no, I was not impanelled). The chronicle of Bear Stearns' downfall is melodrama of the highest order and the author details almost to the hour the events of that fateful weekend in the spring of 2008. The cast of characters is colorful, and in the end, however bruised, they all seemed to have remained millionaires (alas, not the underlings). This text is absorbing in detailing the mechanics of how the company crumbled, particularly its final hours. I would have liked, even if as an appendix, deeper and more thorough business analysis of the road to failure, for example, how the two hedge fund bankruptcies in 2007 came about, how the toxic assets were packaged and sold. To make an analogy: we get the riveting story of the Titanic converging with an iceberg on a cold spring night in the north Atlantic and portraits of the colorful characters on board. I would like to know more about how the ship got there, why the ship sank. With this story about Bear Stearns one is left wanting to know more about the business issues and practices involved, not only at Bear Stearns, but elsewhere, e.g. Lehmann. In all fairness, Ms. Kelly has done a fabulous work of reportage in "Street Fighters" and one cannot fault her for not writing a different book from the one she had in mind. What she wrote is splendid. Given all that happened subsequently in the world at large, one cannot help but be "curioser." That book, a sort of Lords of Finance Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World of the current crisis still needs to be written though now it is a bit premature. Then the true relevance of the Bear Stearns debacle and the way it was dealt with by all, including the government, can be adequately assessed. Such work is still a way off, I'm afraid.
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