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William Cohan, writer for the New York Times, Fortune, and Vanity Fair, former Wall Street banker,  and author of the book House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, to talk about the state of popular anger with Wall St, and whether Goldman Sachs will suffer as a result.

We're assembling a top-notch team of advisers for our Monopoly redesign. This week Kurt Andersen called finance expert William Cohan to find out how to make the rules of the game more representative of capitalism in the 21st century. Cohan is a former investment banker and the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World ...

Bonus Track: Kurt Andersen's full conversation with William Cohan

William Cohan, contributing editor at Fortune and author of the book House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, discusses the implications of financial reform.

The trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers ended in acquittals. WNYC reporter Lisa Chow recaps the Bear Stearns trial and analyzes its impact. Then, William Cohan, contributing Fortune editor and author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall ...

William Cohan, contributing editor at Fortune, former Wall Street banker, and the author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street reflects on the year since Lehman collapsed and talks about the difficulty of holding Wall Street accountable.

William Cohan, contributing editor at Fortune magazine and author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, discusses the current state of the economy and what effect the new bank regulations will have.

Over the course of its 85 year history Bear Stearns became one of the financial giants on Wall Street. Then, in 2008 the company collapsed and took the rest of the financial system down with it. William Cohan chronicles the infighting, hubris, bad bets and terrible decisions that destroyed the ...

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 ...

Over the course of its 85 year history Bear Stearns became one of the financial giants on Wall Street. Then, in 2008 the company collapsed and took the rest of the financial system down with it. William Cohan chronicles the infighting, hubris, bad bets and terrible decisions that destroyed the ...