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Registered Rep. July 24, 2008	SEC Versus Fed: Who Should Regulate Investment Banks? In the wake of the sub-prime crisis and near-collapse of Bear Stearns in mid-March, regulatory reform for investment banks has become a popular topic in Washington and on Wall Street.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Is Bear Stearns Doomed? The market's betting against this notable firm, as rumors permeate Wall Street that the company faces an impending liquidity crisis.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Why Paulson's Plan Works Saluting the Secretary of the Treasury's proposed overhaul of financial institution regulations.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Seth Jayson	Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes?
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 January 27, 2009 Liz Peek	A Bold New Plan: Dump FAS 157 What can President Obama's financial team do to right the banking ship? One idea that should be reviewed is the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, required by FAS 157, which would go a long way toward stabilizing the banks.
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 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 April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns.
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 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 September 16, 2008 Nate Weisshaar	Lehman, Liquidity, and You How Wall Street's failures threaten the rest of us.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Christopher Barker	Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. July 23, 2008 John Churchill	Wachovia Earnings Down; Stock Up 27 Percent In Two Days While Wachovia Corp. was busy posting bad numbers, its two retail financial advisory units -- one for high-net-worth financial planning and the other for retail brokerage, including A.G. Edwards -- did relatively well.
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 May 16, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	This Week in Banking Banking news: Raising capital is getting tougher for banks... Countrywide faces a shareholder lawsuit... Paul Volcker warned that the Federal Reserve Bank's political independence could be compromised... etc.
Registered Rep. September 21, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Banks Officially Welcomed into the Brokerage World Under New SEC Rule It only took eight years, but the SEC and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System passed final rules defining how banks can act as securities brokers.
CFO February 1, 2008 Tim Reason	Bending the Rules Efforts to contain damage from the subprime-mortgage meltdown are stretching accounting rules for securitization.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Gretchen Wilmoth	Investing in Smaller Banking What affects will new regulations have on smaller banks?
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.
InternetNews March 14, 2008 Paul Shread	Bear Bailout Slams Stocks News that Bear Stearns needed emergency funding sent stocks tumbling once again on Friday. Chip stocks led the tech sector lower.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Quit Throwing Gasoline on the Fire If anything, the subprime meltdown essentially proved that Sarbanes-Oxley has failed miserably.
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.
U.S. Banker February 2002	What if Bank One Bought Bear Stearns? Sean Ryan, the former Bear Stearns bank stock analyst who now is an analyst at Fulcrum Global Partners, a securities brokerage firm, is reporting rumors that Bank One is considering buying Bear Stearns. This rumor probably is as baseless as most, but the idea may not be a bad one...
Investment Advisor September 2008 Melanie Waddell	Turf Wars A conversation with former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos about the Treasury's Blueprint for financial services reform.
Investment Advisor May 2008 McBride & Waddell	Seismic Shift The Treasury Secretary floats a regulatory plan that -- if implemented -- will change the financial services world as we know it.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers Holds Tough Despite a wretched week, Lehman battles back liquidity rumors.
Registered Rep. June 22, 2007 John Churchill	Sub-Prime Collapse Bombs Into Brokerage Industry; Indie Brokerage Can't Meet Margin Calls The sub-prime lending meltdown could be spreading.
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 October 2, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it?
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 James Pressley	The Meltdown According to Hank Paulson How the former Treasury Secretary, exhausted and careworn, labored to save the financial system -- and made plenty of mistakes.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Paul Allen	Prime Time for Primes Once an esoteric business controlled by three players, the prime brokerage business has become a hotbed of competition as rival banks and brokers have sought to profit from the hedge fund explosion.
Insurance & Technology April 3, 2008 Katherine Burger	No Surprises in Insurance Industry's Mixed Reception for Treasury Department's Endorsement of Optional Federal Charter Concerns about competitive advantage inspired the life insurance industry's welcome of the Treasury's call for an optional federal charter as part of broad regulatory reform proposals for financial services.
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.
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Engen	Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here?
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 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.
On Wall Street December 1, 2011 Peter J. Wallison	Volcker Rule: A Throwback To A Bygone Era The Volcker Rule, enacted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, has lately received a lot of adverse commentary.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Christopher Barker	The Worst Kind of Deja Vu After 75 years, our biggest financial mistakes have returned.
Investment Advisor October 2008 James J. Green	Wall Street Stunned Wall Street is not what it used to be, for good or ill. Culminating a months-long period of market volatility and uncertainty two marquee names in financial services ceased to exist.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2008 Morgan Housel	Stand Down, Bernanke and Paulson The question is: How bad will the credit crisis still get, and who -- if anyone -- can put the credit market back on its feet?
U.S. Banker May 2008 Joseph Rosta	Moral Hazard? A Greater Hazard Lurks. Not getting regulations correct after today's crisis would be the true moral hazard.
Financial Advisor May 2008	Editor's Note Bear Stearns barely had been pronounced dead before the powers that be all started clucking about re-regulating the entire financial services business.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 James C. Cooper	Credit Is Tightening--And That's Fine Credit tightening is curbing some of the frenzy, and a severe financial crunch is unlikely.
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jody Shenn	Bear Stearns Alumni Are All Over Wall Street The financial crisis hasn't damaged the careers of many former Bear Stearns executives who have found new high-level jobs on Wall Street.
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.