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7 Feb 2011, 7:38 pm
The report describes the Bush Administration’s response as “inconsistent,” such as when it let Lehman Brothers collapse even after bailing out Bear Stearns. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 7:54 am
The Final Report mentions the compensation schemes of financial institutions, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and even mortgage originators. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 10:06 am
JP Morgan now owns Bear Stearns. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 8:20 am
With the denouement of both crises, clear winners and losers emerged: Lehman Brothers entered bankruptcy while Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Wachovia survived only because other banks took them over; other banks averted bankruptcy only as a result of massive government bailouts, e.g., Citigroup and Bank of America; some nervously hedged their bets and survived, bloodied, but intact, e.g., Goldman Sachs; and a precious few institutions profited mightily by risking their own… [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 2:37 pm
A one-time partner at a former Bear Stearns hedge fund and a former International Business Machines Corp. executive have settled civil litigation stemming from a broad insider-trading probe that has ensnared several hedge fund managers. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 2:17 pm
The compensation of non-executives – from traders at a Bear Stearns trading desk to mortgage brokers earning six figure incomes at Countrywide – may explain more of the perverse risk-taking in the crisis than the pay of ceos at those firms. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 12:15 am
I continue to believe this analysis may be influential in other pending cases, as it was here in the Bear Stearns case. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:17 pm
The compensation of non-executives – from traders at a Bear Stearns trading desk to mortgage brokers earning six figure incomes at Countrywide – may explain more of the perverse risk-taking in the crisis than the pay of ceos at those firms. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 7:27 pm
But there are plenty that do not require such information (see here (BoA deal), here (Argent deal with schedules), here (Countrywide deal), here (Chase deal), and here (Bear Stearns deal with schedules) for some examples), and if it's not required, well, it's not there. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 12:14 am
Major financial institutions like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers imploded as a consequence of the financial dislocation. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 10:50 pm
It is also of course the case that if Bear Stearns had been allowed to fail, the failure of Lehman might have gone very differently. [read post]
David Skeel’s Excellent Book, and Comparing Discretion in the Financial Crisis and National Security
7 Jan 2011, 8:29 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) (Note: I was writing this on the plane without quite being able to see the computer screen, so I’ve gone back and corrected some grammar and spelling, and tried to make a couple of things clearer. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 3:28 am
Risk: $$$ Issue: Faulty Background Checks Description: The company’s hiring process failed to detect that every place Andy worked previously — Enron, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers – all collapsed. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 6:24 pm
The University of Miami is represented by Bob Kofman at Stearns Weaver Miller. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 3:43 am
The court’s conclusion with respect to the penalty imposed by the arbitrator: the remedy of reinstatement without back pay and benefits was well within the arbitrator ‘s authority.On a related point, in Greenberg v Bear, Stearns & Co. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 8:00 am
As for the immediate cause of the crisis, here is the explanation: Following the successive collapses of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and American International Group (AIG), what had begun in the second half of 2007 as a run on those firms that the market identified as having large mortgage exposures and acute liquidity risks exploded into a generalized market panic. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 6:51 am
By: David A. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 1:16 am
I rarely do this sort of thing… But, ProPublica posted an article about real life foreclosures not fitting the conventional wisdom of what most people think they are… they’re not a bunch of low income minorities who should never have been able to buy their homes in the first place, for example. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 8:46 am
Before the following year would come to its end, Bear Stearns would be handed off to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, essentially in the middle of the night… initially for just $2 a share, although the price was soon raised to $10 a share in deference to Bear’s shareholders. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:59 am
Yet wouldn't I be right that the worst afflicted banks (Bear Stearns, Lehman) are the ones least diversified, the ones that took least advantage of Glass Steagall repeal? [read post]
