Michael Shaw | Posted March 18, 2008 | Business

I kid you not, this is the image from page 4 of the Bear Stearns 2000 Annual Report. That was the year the company erected its skyscraper in Manhattan which the boys who run the place have been gushing over in...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted March 18, 2008 | Business
American financial history is a sine curve of excess, crisis and reform. The Crash of 1906 and the Bankers' Panic of 1907 led to the birth of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. The crash of 1929 and related bank failures led to the SEC and FDIC. The S&L meltdowns...
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