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Ben Bernanke: Socialist

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business

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Poor lending standards have led to the collapse of communities and harder times for cities, beyond Bear Stearns. Shouldn't they be getting some help too?

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$4 Gasoline at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business

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In an interview with Charlie Rose, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, in his engaging way, asked his audience a seemingly innocuous question: "Who among you is upset with $4 plus gasoline?"

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Bear Stearns Bankers Getting Paid To Literally Do Nothing

NY Mag | Arianne Cohen | Posted 05.12.2008 | Business

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Don't feel too sorry for the soon-to-be-laid-off employees at Bear Stearns: Right now they're getting paid to do nothing. "I'd say 50 percent of my de...

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Time to Buy Gold Bars?

Charles R. Morris | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

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The acrobatics of the Bear rescue suggest the depths of the abyss that our financial leadership has dug for us. Does anyone believe that this is the last time we will hear Fed sirens wailing in the night?

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Funny Money

David McWilliams | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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Paulson's ideas are nothing short of a reverse "Robin Hood" scenario where the poor are being robbed to pay for the rich, so that the rich need not pay for their own mistakes.

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Bear Stearns' Cayne Sells Once-$1 Billion Stake For $61 Million

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Bear Stearns Cos. Chairman James Cayne dumped his entire stake in the embattled investment bank for $61 million as it appears closer ...

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Britney and the Bear: Who Says You Can't Get Good Help Anymore?

Thomas Ferguson and Robert A. Johnson | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business

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We have not seen the last bailout in this crisis. If the public is going to pay for them, as we think it must, it should also get paid back for them.

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In Week Of Iraq War Anniversary, Obama's Race Speech Dominated Media Coverage

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.25.2008 | Media

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Last week was a big one for news: On Monday, the markets opened to news that Bear Stearns had collapsed and was being bought out by JP Morgan; on Tues...

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Exclusive: Bear Stearns Employees Already Financially Raped, Now Possibly Enslaved

Jill Brooke | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

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JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has called CEOs of investment banks saying that it would be "unpatriotic" to go after Bear Stearns employees until he has had first choice over who to keep and who to fire.

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What I Said On Larry King Live

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

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We, the people, must rewrite the rules of the market, to limit environmental degradation, the unregulated speculation that has brought our financial system to the brink of ruin, and the concentration of wealth.

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Bear Stearns Bailout Paves Way For $1+ Trillion U.S. Homeowner Rescue Plan

Henry Blodget | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business

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Get ready for the Fed's next great taxpayer-funded bailout, which is now almost guaranteed: The $1+ Trillion U.S. Homeowner Rescue Plan.

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"Bridge" Loan To Bear Stearns - Who's The Real Dummy?

Stephen H. Baum | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business

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The root cause of the credit crisis is greed gone wild.

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The Most Dramatically Tragic Week

David McWilliams | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

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Bernanke -- like a good priest -- is responding to acts of contrition with the monetary equivalent of three "Hail Mary's and an Our Father." He is granting absolution all over the place.

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Bernanke: Lover of Wall Street, Casual Acquaintance of Students

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

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Corporations are above the law. In fact, elected officials rush around to accommodate them, even when it requires stealing taxpayer money to mend the damage the corporations caused in the first place.

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Billionaire Lewis Warns He May Try To Stop Bear Stearns Deal

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

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Bear Stearns shareholders are understandably furious about the investment bank's sale to JPMorgan Chase for about $2 a share. Now one of the largest o...

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Economic Bailouts!

Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

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It's time for the oil companies, corporations and banks to take responsibility and clean up their own messes.

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Bear Stearns Fat Cats Elicit Little Sympathy

ABC News | Russell Goldman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

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As investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed, and was sold to JPMorgan Chase for a scant $240 million, its chairman James Cayne played bridge at a tourna...

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Shell-Shocked Bear Stearns Employees Turn To Psychologists

ABC News | Russell Goldman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

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Facing the loss of their life savings and very possibly their jobs, employees at investment bank Bear Stearns are turning to trained professionals -- ...

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What Happened to the Bootstraps?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

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If the government is going to bail you out, then the government should be regulating you to make sure you're not going to need a bailout.

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Reading The Pictures: Bear Stearns' Wanton Ambition

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

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I kid you not, this is the image from page 4 of the Bear Stearns 2000 Annual Report.

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Will Wall Street Fall Back To Earth Or Stay Hanging In The Sky?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

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Maybe when Wall Street falls back to Earth, it will be different kind of Earth -- a more humane and compassionate one -- than the one it was on before.

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US, Global Markets: What's Next?

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

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Think Progress: White House Defends Bailout Of Wall Street Instead Of Main Street During today's news briefing, reporters questioned White House Pres...

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Bear Stearns and Carlyle Debacles Are a "Modern-Day Greek Tragedy"

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

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The collapse of Carlyle Capital and the rescue of Bear Stearns signal the end of nearly two decades of easy money, cheap credit and soaring global debt.

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What Bear Stearns' Meltdown Means To You

ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

Think the Bear Stearns meltdown isn't affecting you? You might want to check your investments before you answer. Large mutual funds commonly found in...

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Bear Sterns Is Worth Less Than Your Sister's White-Trash Husband

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

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JP Morgan Chase & Co has agreed to buy Bear Stearns (BSC) for the bargain price of two dollars per share. Just last April, BSC shares were selling at ...

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