…its current account surplus is particularly significant in light of the ongoing and intensifying strains developing in the EMU nations (see here) . Last week’s Greek “rescue” is Europe’s “Bear…

…puked on the way to which boardroom while Bear Stearns was imploding, or where a given CEO summered in 2008, this is probably not the book for you. If you…

…more bank failures since Bear Stearns failed are 4th, 9th, and 11th on the list. The only other state in double-digits right now, Florida, is 16th.) I’ll wait patiently for…

…that which wiped out Bear Stearns in only a matter of days. Goldman uses a similar arrangement that ties its lending commitments to the firm’s own bond prices. 9/21/08 WASHINGTON…

…a couple of institutions go that surprise everyone. Bear Stearns can hardly be a shock. But having said that, it’s one thing to see it intellectually and it’s another to…

…Bear Stearns’s five-year bond issue in August 2007 at 245 over: rather closer to “junk” status than its rating would have implied. If you compare the debt and stock markets,…

…long predicted the credit bubble…. Yes, you saw that correctly. David Malpass. Strangely, they don’t describe him as “David Malpass, former Chief Economist for Bear Stearns, who long advocated taking…

…and Exchange Commission began scrutinizing Citigroup’s subprime mortgage holdings after Bear Stearns’s problems surfaced, the bank told them that the probability of those mortgages defaulting was so tiny that they…

…companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. Mr. Lahde appears to be betting that this man’s father won’t hold a grudge. That…

…cut the crap and, in effect, divide up LTCM equally among them. It is very bad for an investment bank to anger the New York Fed. Bear Stearns was the…