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…like the Googlism’s for “Angry Bear”: angry bear is a dangerous bear angry bear is the last thing they want to run into angry bear is something even worse angry…

Roubini’s not wrong, but…

…will do more damage to the financial system than the “moral hazard” that accompanies “saving” any given firm. The Fed “saved” Bear Stearns (a.k.a., The Old Firm, or BS for…

About Angry Bear

…Angry Bear 2010: In 2010 24/7 Wall St. named Angry Bear among the top twenty independent financial blogs on the net. The Angry Bear www.angrybearblog.com. Half a dozen professionals, including…

The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

The ATM Myth

Bear Stearns arrangement—and Bear and Chase were tight even before the latter “paid the two dollars”—as a benchmark, a semi-full service (as with the ATMs in most grocery stores and…

The Alpha and the Omega of mid-2007

…least six months after even those with their own origination capacity realised the game was over, and about two weeks before Bear Stearns would issue bonds at the then-junk-bond-area yield…

…David Malpass of Bear Stearns. Doesn’t it make you think that Wesbury is from the University of Chicago and that Vedder is from Ohio State University? Economists routinely say “she’s…