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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.
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Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia	After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Christopher Barker	$700 Billion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns.
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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.
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Reason January 2009 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel	The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing
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