…Bank of America Corp. for about $50 billion on Sept. 15. Bear Stearns Cos.’s James “Jimmy” Cayne made $161 million before the company collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase…

…The most obvious question: is how will paying market price for near worthless assets prevent the collapse of zombie institutions like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG? These institutions needed…

…our housing markets followed by the collapse of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and now Lehman Brothers. I am glad to see that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury…

Barclay’s walks, BofA may buy….what are the guarantees involved with tax money? How did Bear Stearns and others work out in costs?…

…operating costs and business risk.” Tom Marano—who knows mortgages and the mortgage market inside and out—was, prior to his moving to ResCap, the head of mortgage origination at Bear Stearns….

Fed values Bear Stearns assets at a level where it has only cost them $100,000nothing—so far. (Indeed, there’s a $50,000 “buffer” left.) Strangely, the scuttlebutt in the market yesterday was…

…market liquid. Investors may feel they can’t lose by putting money into financial companies. The Federal Reserve — by engineering the takeover of Bear Stearns Cos. by JPMorgan Chase &…

…ability to meet margin calls, al la Bear Stearns. Complete at Commitments of Traders. Also corrected link to Gene Epstein’s Barron’s cover story Commodities: Who’s Behind the Boom? Next, the…

…between the remaining demand for unsecured term funding in the bank market and the latest decline in supply following the run on Bear Stearns,” wrote Lou Crandall, chief economist for…

…of “business consultants” have been a bit too innovative of late. All of them—Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, CitiGroup, et al—were our great money makers: What we had to trade. It…