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19 Aug 2009, 3:44 pm
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 9:16 am
Worse, the notional value of a CDO or of a mortgage security bears no relation the market value. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 6:27 am
A cult followed, as other financial institutions like Bear Stearn, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG used the Morgan technique and added the combustible element of subprime loans to the derivative and securitization approach. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 8:53 am
So now this brings me to Wessel's book:Wessel, one of the Wall Street Journal's chief reporters on the economy, details the response of Ben Bernanke and, to only a somewhat lesser extent, Henry Paulsen (together with Tim Geithner) to what Wessel terms the "Great Panic" provoked by the collapse of the housing market and the associated debacle with sub-prime mortgages and then, of course, given a big boost by the threatened bankruptcy of Bear Stearns and the… [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 10:39 am
For example, Schonfeld is backing a firm called Quantitative Models Capital Management, run by a Ph.D. in physics and former Bear Stearns employee. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 6:53 am
It doesn't take macroeconomic sophistication to recognize that if you can bail out Bear Stearns and AIG, and open the discount window to primary dealers, not to mention create the TALF, you can bail out Lehman. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 9:14 am
In the end, Bear Stearns failed because its transaction counterparties no longer believed its bluff. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 2:29 pm
”As an example of “maladaptive” overconfidence on the Street, Gladwell selects former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne, pulling material from William Cohan’s book, House of Cards. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 7:09 am
The same sort of problem was in play when JP Morgan Chase acquired Bear Stearns last year. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 7:27 am
JPMorgan picked up Bear, Stearns and WaMu. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 1:49 pm
My favorite is from House of Cards, William Cohan’s book about Bear Stearns. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 6:34 am
With regard to the creditor defendants, the bankruptcy court approved a financing arrangement in which the creditors—namely Bear Stearns, acting through managing partners Taub and Lehman—would advance the costs necessary to recover property of the estate and would receive repayment from recovered assets, if any. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 11:36 am
The bankruptcy of Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers in 2008, triggered a massive deleveraging of the entire arbitrage industry from hedge funds to bank proprietary trading desks. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 12:29 pm
Cohan's House of Cards, about the collapse of Bear, Stearns--is helpful, but impaired by the fact that Bear was such an outliner that its failure may not teach us very much. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 11:43 am
July 8, 2009Re: The Vast Amount That We Don’t Know About The Madoff Matter. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 6:22 am
Indeed, Bear Stearns only established a full risk committee of its Board of Directors months before it failed, too late to stanch the rising crisis. [read post]
3 Jul 2009, 2:07 pm
Citing his 2008 decision in In re Bear Stearns, 2008 WL 959992 (Del. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 12:26 pm
Nor were the derivatives dealers affiliated with Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and other investment banks. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 7:52 am
Stock and derivative markets must be effectively regulated so that a few profit-seeking bear raiders cannot contribute to a "run on the bank" that destroys an enterprise and risks global systemic collapse, as in the cases of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:32 pm
Senate and is a direct reaction to the herculean growth of the $680 trillion OTC derivatives market, highly publicized issues surrounding the use of credit derivatives and crises involving major derivative counterparties such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG that resulted in systemic risk to global financial markets. [read post]
