Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 13, 2010

Greg Farrell gives a fly-on-the-wall account of the fall and sale of Merrill Lynch: a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street. Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America looks at what caused Merrill Lynch to collapse and what this story of greed, hubris, and incompetence tells us about the culture of Wall Street. The book is a financial thriller based on never-before-revealed information.

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