Bear Stearns Collapse

New York Psychiatrist Uses Verbal Abuse On Wall Street Clients

The Daily Beast | Dr. Stephen Josephson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

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A New York psychiatrist says caustic verbal abuse is the best treatment for traumatized Wall Street jocks. Last week the bottom dropped out of the fi...

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Hedge Funds Poach Talent From Weakened Investment Banks Like Bear Stearns

DealBook | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

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Hedge funds are on a hiring binge, taking advantage of cutbacks at investment banks. Star traders, senior executives and whole teams have been recruit...

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Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Charged With Teen Solicitation, Goes To Jail (VIDEO)

CNBC | Vicky Ward | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is going to jail on sex charges, and Vicky Ward, a CNBC contributor, discusses the details....

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Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Charged With Teen Sex Solicitation May Have Lost $57M Thanks To Bear Stearns Mess

New York Post | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

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As if he doesn't have enough problems with the sleazy sex charges against him, it turns out billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was one of the bigges...

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Did Bear Stearns Execs Cioffi, Tannin Lie To Wall Street, Too?

BusinessWeek | Matthew Goldstein and David Henry | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business

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Federal prosecutors may not be done with former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who were charged on June 18 with ly...

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Matthew Tannin: Bear Stearns Former Manager Indicted In Mortgage Sweep

Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

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Below is some information on Matthew Tannin, one of the two former Bear Stearns executives indicted today in the FBI's "Operation Malicious Mortgage."...

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Ralph Cioffi: Bear Stearns Former Manager Indicted In Mortgage Crackdown

Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

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Below is information on Ralph Cioffi, the former Bear Stearns manager, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with securities fraud and various cha...

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Bear Stearns Executives Ralph Cioffi, Matthew Tannin Indicted... FBI Announces "Operation Malicious Mortgage"

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

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Two former Bear Stearns managers have been arrested, federal authorities said Thursday, becoming the first executives to face criminal charges in the ...

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Thanks for the Apology, Jimmy, But Bear Stearns Death Wasn't An Act of God

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

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Henry Blodget

Many analysts had been shouting from rooftops for years that the housing bubble was a disaster in the making. Bear Stearns, like many other Wall Street firms, chose to ignore this view.

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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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Charles R. Morris

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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Support the Economy, Push the Banks

Neil Grossman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

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Neil Grossman

If I were in the Fed's shoes, I would try to persuade financial institutions to retain employees (actually insist), even at the expense of reducing earnings.

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Funny Money

David McWilliams | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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David McWilliams

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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How Goldman Sachs Secretly Destroyed Bear Stearns

Henry Blodget | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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Henry Blodget

Once again, Goldman seems to have outsmarted the rest of Wall Street, spotting a problem before everyone else did.

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Wall Street Shows Optimism That Crisis Is Fading

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

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Stocks started the second quarter with a soaring rally on Tuesday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 400 points, its best performanc...

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Bear Skin: How the New York Times Scooped the Wall Street Journal

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 03.31.2008 | Media

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Yvette Kantrow

The WSJ's front page Monday was starkly devoid of any Bear Stearns news, as was the rest of the paper. The omission was glaring, given how effectively the WSJ had covered Bear the previous week.

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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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Thomas Ferguson and Robert A. Johnson

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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Goldman Sachs: Wall St. May Face $460B In Losses

Bloomberg | Zhao Yidi | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

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Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost fo...

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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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Jill Brooke

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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Anya Kamenetz

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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Henry Blodget

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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JPMorgan In Secret Talks To Quintuple Bid For Bear Stearns

New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business

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JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort ...

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Congress And Bush Administration At Odds Over Regulating Wall Street

New York Times | By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 03.22.2008 | Business

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As Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain the housing and credit crises -- and prevent more Wall Street firms from collapsing as Bea...

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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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Stephen H. Baum

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

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