Theodore Jerome Cohen


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Topics of conversation:

  • Financial meltdown of 2008
  • Tangled web in the financial industry
  • The downfall of "no doc" loans and hardships on home owners
  • Bundling mortgages into securities
  • $5.00 for gas; payment of high bonuses - what happened?

Theodore J. Cohen, Ph.D., holds three degrees in the physical sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been an engineer and scientist for more than 40 years. He has published more than 350 papers, articles, columns, essays, and interviews in the fields of communications and electronics, as well as numerous novels. Dr. Cohen has been an investor since 1960, focusing almost entirely since 1980 on the world of biotechnology. His experience spans the period from the dawn of the Age of Biotechnology in the late 1970s to today's era of ever more momentous successes in the field. His most recent novel, House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales, is based on real events related to the 2008 financial crisis precipitated by the housing bubble. An earlier novel of the same genre, Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, focused on corruption within the food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the incompetence of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Dr. Cohen served in the US Army Corps of Engineers from March 1966 through March 1968, leaving the service with the rank of Captain.

House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Theodore J. Cohen
Outskirts Press (2011)
ISBN 9781432779801
Reviewed by Marty Shaw for Reader Views (10/11)

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Synopsis: House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the major banks and hedge funds in this country created, marketed, and sold junk mortgage-back securities to unsuspecting customers while, at the same time, offloading their risks through the purchase of ?insurance? from a major Wall Street insurance firm. When the head of the sixth largest investment banking and securities firm in the United States is assassinated on Times Square in the middle of New York City?s annual Festival of the Dead, Homicide Detective Louis Martelli is one of the first on the scene. Working quickly, NYPD Information Specialist missy Dugan rapidly identifies the assassin, but the case rapidly spirals downward into a maelstrom of death and intrigue linked both to the financial meltdown of 2008 and international terrorism. Who was behind the murders, and why did the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attempt to shut down Martelli?s investigation before it even got started? Martelli eventually learns the answers to these and other questions as he tracks down the killer, but not before uncovering some of Wall Street?s darkest secrets, including a plot by two institutions to fund Islamic terrorism.