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BEAR STEARNS

The subprime mortgage meltdown made 2007 a disastrous year for Bear Stearns, one of the nation’s largest underwriters of mortgage bonds. Beginning this summer with the housing slowdown, Bear Stearns has stood as the prime example of how Wall Street’s big bet on securities based on risky home loans went south.

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Hedge Fund Managers at Bear Stearns Found Not Guilty of Fraudmore

It was, prosecutors claimed, a clear case of Wall Street crime — and a chance to bring to account two culprits of the...

'Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm...more

A little more than a year ago, the fabled investment banking house of Bear Stearns was one of the pillars not only of...

Did the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act cause the housing bubble?more

GLB made it possible for JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns and for Bank...

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WASHINGTON — The stimulus bill working its way through Congress is not just a package of spending increases and tax...

A Year After Bear Stearns: The Amazing, Shrinking World of Wall Street...more

The weekend of Sept. 12-14 has been called the weekend Wall Street died. It was the weekend Merrill Lynch and Bank of...

BBC NEWS | Business | US to force AIG to repay bonusesmore

Mr Geithner has come under criticism for his handling of AIG Ailing insurer AIG will be required to pay back hugely...

Bear Stearns: Natural Causes or Murder?more

Bryan Burrough has penned a riveting article in the August issue of Vanity Fair exploring the death of Bear Stearns.

Guggenheim Hires Bear Stearns CEO Schwartz, Birth of Wall Street Titanmore

Guggenheim Partners announced today that it has hired Alan Schwartz as executive chairman. From January to March of...

HighTower Announces Richard Saperstein, Barron's 'Top 100 Advisor,' to...more

professionals. 'While I greatly appreciate the support my associates and I have received since J.P. Morgan acquired...

How to Deal With GM's Bondholders?more

deal with uncooperative bondholders. anonymous: Why should GMAC and GM bondholders take a haircut but AIG...

Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman, Merrill Lynch...AIG,...more

Can you picture the what the financial services recruiting landscape is going to look like one month from now?

Bring Down Bear Stearnsmore

Bryan Burrough writes in Vanity Fair on the demise of the New York investment bank.

So long, suckers. Millionaire hedge fund boss thanks 'idiot' traders a...more

worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns...

Long-Term Capital: It’s a Short-Term Memory more

Roger Lowenstein on the other bailout before Bear

The Prelude to Bear Stearns Collapse more

Even though the subprime crisis had begun by at least December 2006 with the sudden failure of mid-sized mortgage...

Ex-Fed chief Alan Greenspan attacks Fannie and Freddie bail-outmore

private investors. However, he acknowledged that some form of government intervention was inevitable, saying the Fed's...

Dimon Juiced by Big Bear Tangmore

Bear Stearns' vice-chairman Donald Tang remains uncommitted to whether he will stay with the firm after it is acquired...

Paramax Capital Partners Announces Initiative To Invest in Opportuniti...more

consumer ABS, MBS and whole loans who have decades of experience in senior roles at firms including Citigroup, Bear...

The Lawyers Are Missingmore

executives have said they didn't know the extent of Merrill's troubles at the time Named Defendants: Bear Stearns,...

Credit crunch changes everyday life in U.S. - International Herald Tri...more

For more than half a century, Americans have proved staggeringly resourceful at finding new ways to spend money.

New checks, balances coming to financial industrymore

an agency could identify trouble before a company enters a death spiral of the type that felled Lehman, Bear Stearns...

The last days of Bear Stearnsmore

It took only a few days, a rising sense of panic - and a critical e-mail - to spell the end of the 85-year-old...

Washington Couple Behind 'American Casino,' a Documentary of U.S. Fina...more

those guys declined to be interviewed, although 'American Casino' includes a candid (and anonymous) sit-down with a...

Greenspan says government needs new power, laws and limits for corpora...more

Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing...

Settlement - Massachusetts` William Galvin gets 100% of investments...more

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