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The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bear Stearns Hits the Panic Button Investment bank Bear Stearns liquidity woes prove to be true; the bank announces that it will receive short-term financing from the Federal Reserve and rival JPMorgan Chase.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Chuck Saletta	You're Being Taken to the Cleaners You and I are subsidizing the risks that JPMorgan and Bear Stearns are taking, and their shareholders and managers are receiving the rewards.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	What Can JPMorgan Do With Bear Stearns? If JPMorgan can pull Bear back to even a fraction of its former self, the acquisition will go down in history as one of the most lucrative deals ever made.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 William Trent	What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bear Stearns Gets Sweeter JPMorgan ups its bid for the embattled investment bank to $10 per share, a five-time jump above its original, paltry offer.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	How Lehman Played Musical Chairs With Its Loans Lehman Brothers sheds light on new Fed lending facilities. Will it work?
The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Morgan Housel	Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Will Bear Stearns Receive a Rival Bid? Two days after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 per share, BSC stock is trading for slightly more than $5 per share. How could this be? Because the market is factoring in the possibility of a rival offer from another bidder.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Goldstein & Henry	On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work.
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BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein	The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise.
Registered Rep. July 8, 2008 Kristen French	Post Bear, Regulatory Reform May Squeeze Brokerage Margins Could increased regulation of the brokerage industry in the wake of the subprime crisis and Bear Stearns debacle tighten the screws on brokerage business revenues and margins?
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG?
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The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Bear Stearns' Flesh Wound How deep do the problems at Bear Stearns run? Even in the best-case scenario -- where it really is just the hedge funds with heavy losses -- the ramifications will still likely be painful.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Morgan Housel	Classy Goldman Shows How It's Done Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's largest investment bank, is the shining light in an ugly industry.
Registered Rep. March 17, 2008 Kristen French	Bear Sells To JP Morgan, Advisors Prepare For Flight Recruiters say Bear advisors are very determined to leave, but the deal at least buys them some time to look for a new home.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Morgan Housel	Goldman's New Golden Boy? Fortune magazine reports there's a 50-50 chance Alan Schwartz -- Bear Stearns' CEO at the time of collapse -- will be Goldman Sachs' newest investment banking employee.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	No Hibernating at Bear Stearns Investment banks have been hot. The run might not be over yet and Bear Stearns is a generally risk-averse company that still has some global expansion potential. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Orderly Deleveraging at Bear Stearns Here is an investor's tour of the mess at Bear Stearns, which has been figuring out what to do about a couple of its hedge funds that have made some not-so-successful bets on the subprime mortgage market.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: What Bear Stearns' Fallout Means for Investors A discussion about the fallout of the collapse of Bear Stearns.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Michael Leibert	A Look at Bear Stearns As the strategic landscape evolves in ways that do not always favor Bear's strengths, the firm is unlikely to continue to outperform its peers. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	30-Second Overview: JPMorgan Chase A quick look at a banking behemoth that has remained largely unscathed throughout the banking fiasco.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 Roben Farzad	Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan Bruised but Ready for Another Round JPMorgan Chase is setting itself up to become Wall Street's next dominant force.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Can We Afford All of These Bailouts? There was another period of time when the financial system was allowed to collapse and banks were allowed to fail left and right. The ensuing period was so horrific, no one dares to call it anything less than the Great Depression.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Michael Leibert	More Happy Bankers at Bear The smallest of the big, publicly traded securities houses, Bear Stearns posted its best quarter ever, with net income of $563 million or $4 per diluted share, a 38% increase from the fourth quarter of 2005.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	This Week in Banking Many are speculating whether it's time to get back into financial stocks.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta	The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Morgan Housel	A Tantalizing Conflict of Interest One peculiar conflict of interest should catch investors' attention. JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, and Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, both serve on the Board of Directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- yep, the same bank that facilitated the Bear Stearns transaction.
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Goldstein et al.	Mutually Assured Mayhem Wall Street is on edge, scrambling to buck up Bear Stearns and avert a domino-effect debacle.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Not Bearish on Bear Stearns Though perhaps not a dirt-cheap bargain, it doesn't appear that wild expectations are built into the investment bank's price. The stock looks a little interesting here.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan	The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again.
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	WaMu Rebuffs a Sweet Offer It now appears that talks had been well under way for JPMorgan to acquire Washington Mutual -- but not anymore.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not.
CFO January 1, 2009 Scott Leibs	The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Andrew Sullivan	Why Lehman's Failure Is the Best Outcome As painful as it is, as painful as it will be, the fact that both the government and the financial industry let Lehman fail is ultimately a sign of confidence in our financial markets.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Richard Gibbons	Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	What Lurks Beneath There are many registered independent advisors and broker/dealers for whom the Bear Stearns debacle is much more than an academic exercise.
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Peter Coy	It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	Paulson to Fannie and Freddie Investors: Drop Dead The Treasury secretary's plans to nationalize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will wipe out investors.