…could meet up. Bonddad and the Bear go back a long way. Angry Bear does post his commentaries later in the day. The Friday commentaries have an excellent and detailed…

First-degree price discrimination is now . . . or “it’s not what the market will bear but what each individual will bear.” The one-handed economist Economists dislike monopolies because they reduce “surplus” — relative…

…others. For each article written or displayed there is a chance to comment. I do not believe Joel and I are boring. The other writers who come to Angry Bear…

This will soon be the new look for Angry Bear, and a switch to the wordpress platform from blogger will add considerably to functions. Our advertisements are also missing. The…

…declared bankruptcy after making almost $900 million of other people’s money disappear. Bear Stearns came off October 1, 2008, four months after the company imploded and sold itself to JP…

…for the first time in a year or so. (Ask your grandfather about the recession of 1990-1991.) In short, I am not liquidity-constrained. Alan “Ace” Greenberg—the last CEO of Bear…

…i.e., no effect on employment supply. As an aside, this was in part the reasoning behind the Bear Stearns “bag of rubber bands, box of paper clips, go buy all…

…positions with the best of them. William Cohan’s sources may not have told him this, but Warren Spector probably could have saved Bear Stearns. And if there had been a…

…key sponsoring banks such as Lehman and Bear Stearns suggest that this “practical” issue had substantial consequences, at least for the legal proceedings even if not for the IRS tax…

…three classes of commercial mortgage pass-through certificates from Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2002-TOP6, a U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) transaction…. The downgrade of class M to ‘D’ follows…