Bear Stearns Collapse

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is going to jail on sex charges, and Vicky Ward, a CNBC contributor, discusses the details....

As if he doesn't have enough problems with the sleazy sex charges against him, it turns out billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was one of the bigges...

Federal prosecutors may not be done with former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who were charged on June 18 with ly...

Below is some information on Matthew Tannin, one of the two former Bear Stearns executives indicted today in the FBI's "Operation Malicious Mortgage."...

Below is information on Ralph Cioffi, the former Bear Stearns manager, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with securities fraud and various cha...

Two former Bear Stearns managers have been arrested, federal authorities said Thursday, becoming the first executives to face criminal charges in the ...

Many analysts had been shouting from rooftops for years that the housing bubble was a disaster in the making. Bear Stearns, like many other Wall Street firms, chose to ignore this view.

Don't feel too sorry for the soon-to-be-laid-off employees at Bear Stearns: Right now they're getting paid to do nothing. "I'd say 50 percent of my de...

The acrobatics of the Bear rescue suggest the depths of the abyss that our financial leadership has dug for us. Does anyone believe that this is the last time we will hear Fed sirens wailing in the night?

If I were in the Fed's shoes, I would try to persuade financial institutions to retain employees (actually insist), even at the expense of reducing earnings.

Paulson's ideas are nothing short of a reverse "Robin Hood" scenario where the poor are being robbed to pay for the rich, so that the rich need not pay for their own mistakes.

Once again, Goldman seems to have outsmarted the rest of Wall Street, spotting a problem before everyone else did.

Stocks started the second quarter with a soaring rally on Tuesday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 400 points, its best performanc...

NEW YORK — Bear Stearns Cos. Chairman James Cayne dumped his entire stake in the embattled investment bank for $61 million as it appears closer ...

We have not seen the last bailout in this crisis. If the public is going to pay for them, as we think it must, it should also get paid back for them.

Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost fo...

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has called CEOs of investment banks saying that it would be "unpatriotic" to go after Bear Stearns employees until he has had first choice over who to keep and who to fire.

We, the people, must rewrite the rules of the market, to limit environmental degradation, the unregulated speculation that has brought our financial system to the brink of ruin, and the concentration of wealth.

Get ready for the Fed's next great taxpayer-funded bailout, which is now almost guaranteed: The $1+ Trillion U.S. Homeowner Rescue Plan.

JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort ...

As Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain the housing and credit crises -- and prevent more Wall Street firms from collapsing as Bea...

The root cause of the credit crisis is greed gone wild.

Bernanke -- like a good priest -- is responding to acts of contrition with the monetary equivalent of three "Hail Mary's and an Our Father." He is granting absolution all over the place.