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No sympathy lost between Bear Stearns titans
AFTER 59 years, Alan Greenberg is still trading away at Bear Stearns, the troubled Wall Street bank that is about to disappear. Ask about his retirement ...
Fifty ways to leave your lender
Certain managers felt that the radical actions taken by the US Federal Reserve to effectively nationalize Bear Stearns the weekend of March 15 and 16 marked ...


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  • Housing bill a fair bailout
    The housing bill the House of Representatives approved Thursday should be good news for large segments of the economy and the population of Volusia and Flagler counties. But don't celebrate yet. President Bush is threatening to veto it. He says the bill, which may entail a $2.4 billion federal bailout of bad mortgages, "will reward speculators and lenders." Bush never raised that objection when t
    - 05/12/08 at 05:00AM


  • Bear bosses at each other’s throats
    Billions up in flames, allegations of dope smoking and of playing golf and cards while the empire burned; it's a terrible way to end a career. Now to make matters worse, Jimmy Cayne, fallen boss of Bear Stearns, has been publicly lambasted by his mentor, with whom he still shares an office.
    - 05/12/08 at 04:40AM


  • TROUBLE IN LI PARADISE
    Homeowners in the some of the toniest ZIP codes in the Hamptons are facing a frightening reality - they can't afford to foot the bill for their high-priced homes, The Post has learned. In the first three months of this year, banks have launched preliminary foreclosure actions - known as lis pendens proceedings - against a record 120 borrowers in East Hampton and Southampton towns. Twenty percent
    - 05/12/08 at 03:29AM


  • A primer on judging bond safety
    Question: I am worried about holding on to bonds issued by the Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. just weeks before its was bailed out. Although I bought them for $75,000, my broker told me a few weeks ago that the bonds were worth only $68,000. I'm wondering if JPMorgan Chase & Co. will honor the maturity if the takeover goes through. The bonds, at 5.3 percent, mature in March 2010. - S.V.
    - 05/11/08 at 05:38AM


  • William Pesek: Why a "rice cartel' would never work
    Until last week, the next oil…the critical resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies…was water. Turns out, it's rice.That's at least what some Asian leaders think. Hence a plan in Southeast Asia to create an OPEC-like cartel to manage rice supplies amid record prices. Thailand and Vietnam account for almost half of global rice exports. Add in Cambodia, Laos
    - 05/11/08 at 04:45AM


  • Rising Energy Costs and the Future of Hospital Work
    This is a talk given by Dan Bednarz to a group of nurses. The talk was given at the House of Delegates Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals (Pasnap) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2008. Dan is a healthcare consultant who tries to get people in healthcare (including public health) to start thinking about peak oil and climate change issues and how
    - 05/10/08 at 11:22AM


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    [The_Intelligent_Investor] Re: Long Term Timing
    Worldcom, Enron and Bear Stearns investors wish that weren't true, but the charts don't lie. The truth will set you free. If all CEO's were as ehthical as Warren Buffett, investors would not even need to look at charts, but they aren't. ...
    - Sun, May 11


    Resolved Question: i need help with math (10 points) i know i need ...
    The Republicans and Wall-Street scream capitalism, capitalism, then they have the US Tax-Payers bail out Bear-Stearns, a private investment banking, security brokerage firm to the tune of billions of dollars! What happened to capitalism ...
    - Sun, May 11


    General Stock Discussions - Bear Stearns Bailout Contract
    [quote]Careful Mliu: the last thread that suggested money was involved in the bailout got sent to the bilge.[/quote] is supposed to be from treasure. And they did not sign this.
    - Sun, May 11


    Why Is This Guy Still Employed?
    Three of his largest holdings are (were) Countrywide, Bear Stearns and Yahoo! Ouch! Why doesn’t this guy let someone else pick the stocks? Miller defends his “take big bets” strategy as opposed to a more “spread the risk” indexing ...
    - Sun, May 11


    3rd Down: More Bank Failures Anticipated
    Obviously the failure of Bear Stearns would have triggered cascading defaults given so many players were writing credit default swaps on securities that did not even exist, thus adding multiples to Bear’s actual debt market value — at ...
    - Sun, May 11


    Snap Judgment - Volume 5
    He recently bought Bear Stearns stock because he does not believe in all of this “sub-prime mortgage mumbo jumbo”. Don’t confuse the quickness of Snap Judgment’s assessments with having good instincts; he is just lazy and stubborn. ...
    - Sun, May 11


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