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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]
14 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm
So maybe this kind of judicial reception, and the jury in Bear Stearns test case that failed, has made the government gun shy. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 3:09 am
Goldman Sachs has denied that it sparked the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds by lowering the valuation of their subprime assets. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 5:50 pm
Why the hell isn't California? [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:41 pm
STEARNS, District Judge. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 8:56 am
I'll give Skeel one point for consistency -- he was against the AIG and Bear Stearns bailouts; he thought they should have gone bankrupt, too. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 5:50 pm
Nobody from Lehman, Merrill Lynch or Citigroup, no top AIG or Bear Stearns executives, no big mortgage company executive, not even Angelo Mozillo. [read post]
