Jimmy Cayne

Charles Ferguson: How A Bank Self Destructs

Charles Ferguson | Posted 05.21.2012

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Charles Ferguson

One fascinating question about the financial crisis is how and why the CEOs of major banks could have tolerated behavior that destroyed their own companies.

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Seven Villians Of The Financial Crisis: Where Are They Now?

DailyFinance | BRUCE WATSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2008, as the economy seemed to be in free-fall, pundits, politicians and the public cast about in search of the ultimate villain, the Wall Street w...

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The Wisdom Jimmy Cayne - A Career In Lowlights

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman and Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne is scheduled to testify before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today, and his testimony is sure to be mem...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Financial Crisis Commission Hearing UPDATES: Bear Stearns, SEC Officials Grilled

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've compiled breaking updates of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's hearing today on "the shadow banking system." Today's testimony includes...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Ex-Bear Stearns Chief Splits With Wall Street, Endorses Regulating Derivatives

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The former chief executive officer of failed investment bank Bear Stearns endorsed Congress's push to mandate federal re-regulation of derivatives. ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Former Bear Stearns Chiefs, Ignoring Firm's Faults, Blame Collapse On 'Unjustified', 'Irrational', 'Unfounded' 'Rumors' And 'Speculation'

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The former chiefs of failed investment bank Bear Stearns plan to tell an investigative panel Wednesday that the firm's demise was due to nothing more ...

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Charlie Gasparino's Glass Jaw and A Woman of No Importance

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janet Tavakoli

Charles Gasparino may break some Wall Street gossip, but don't look to him for cutting-edge insightful analysis. After-the-fact reporting is not the same as being "ahead" of everyone else.

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Lehman, Bear Stearns Execs Cashed In As Their Firms Failed: Study

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you thought that the executives at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns paid dearly in when their firms famously imploded last year, think again. A ne...

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Financial Crisis Financiers: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Cassano, John Thain, Kerry Killinger, Franklin Raines, Slidepoll, Aig, Christopher Cox, Fannie Mae, Angelo Mozilo, Where Are They Now, Stan O'Neal, Sandy Weil, Merrill Lynch, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Jimmy Cayne, Business News

UPDATE: AIG's Joseph Cassano is BACK in U.S. soil. Check out info on his "surprisingly modest" home here. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well...

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Bear Stearns Has Learned Nothing

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

We must take action to stop the greed and corruption on Wall Street.

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Possible Jail For Financial Execs

Portfolio | Posted 05.25.2011

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We asked a group of eight former prosecutors and other legal experts (some of whom asked to remain anonymous) about which of the meltdown's disgraced ...

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Jimmy Cayne's Profanity-Laced Tirade Against Geithner

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne's view on Fed Chair Timothy Geithner: "This guy thinks he's got a big d--. He's got nothing, except maybe ...

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Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Charged With Teen Solicitation, Goes To Jail (VIDEO)

CNBC | Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Dick Grasso's Grit May Prevail, Help Him Keep $185 Million Payday

New York Times | Landon Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Call it the curse of Dick Grasso. Eliot Spitzer in 2004, pointing out what he said was evidence that Richard A. Grasso had received excessive compens...

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At Bear, Jimmy Cayne's Apology Met With Silence

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Cayne, on his second to last day as chairman of Bear, presided over the meeting at the firm's auditorium, which was filled with more than 400 empl...

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Fight! Bear Stearn's Elder Statesmen In FingerPointing Feud

New York Times | Landon Thomas, Jr | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 59 years, Alan C. Greenberg is still trading away at Bear Stearns, the troubled Wall Street bank that is about to disappear. Ask about his retir...

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Dethroned Bear Stearns CEO Needs Armed Bodyguard

New York Post | PAUL THARP and ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 05.25.2011

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From today's New York Post: Anger has reverberated all week throughout the gloomy Madison Avenue offices, where dethroned chief Jimmy Cayne has walke...

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Bear Stearns As Sacrifical Lamb

Vince Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vince Farrell

Maybe Bear deserved to fail, or maybe it was just bad luck to be in the cross-hairs at the wrong time. But I can see how stockholders and employees would be enraged.

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Know Your Slight Weird Facts About Very Wealthy Wall Streeters

The Deal | Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Losses are mounting. CEOs are quitting. Bonuses are plummeting. And here's what we've learned about what's going on on Wall Street these days from rea...

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