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Bear Stearns was an American investment bank that collapsed in 2008 amid the global financial crisis and recession. It was involved in the subprime mortgage crisis and had to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase after a bailout by the Federal Reserve.
James Cayne was the CEO of Bear Stearns, a Wall Street investment bank that collapsed in 2008. He was also a bridge player and sponsor, winning several championships and contributing a column.
383 Madison Avenue is a 47-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York, built in 2002 for Bear Stearns. It is now occupied by JPMorgan Chase's investment banking division and has a glass crown and a railroad track below.
Bear Stearns had a long and storied history, a focal point of which was its survival after the 1929 stock market crash, and ensuing Great Depression. Founded as an equity trading firm by Joseph ...
Bear Stearns was levered 34-to-1 in the quarter before it went under. That is, its total assets were 34 times its equity cushion. And looking back historically, this wasn't a new phenomena for Bear.
Greenberg spoke at the 92nd St. Y to promote his new book, The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns, his response to the slew of other books that chronicled the bank's meltdown, namely William D. Cohan's ...
Irving Place Capital is a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies in the industrial, packaging, consumer and retail sectors. It was founded in 1997 as Bear Stearns Merchant Banking and became independent in 2008.
A two-dollar bill taped over Bear Stearns' logo at its Madison Avenue headquarters just about said it all. On March 16, 2008, after a profound loss of confidence by Bear Stearns' lenders ...