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July 6, 2008
How Bear Stearns Got Sucker Punched
Great 10,000-word read in the August Vanity Fair from Bryan "Barbarians at the Gate" Burrough about the collapse of Bear Stearns.
On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves. But soon the speculation created its own reality, and the race was on to keep Bear’s crisis from ravaging Wall Street. With the blow-by-blow from insiders, Bryan Burrough follows the players—Bear’s stunned executives, trigger-happy reporters at CNBC, a nervous Fed, a shadowy group of short-sellers—in what some believe was the greatest financial scandal in history.
Read it here.
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