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<p>On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”<br> <br> This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitabl
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- Author
- William D. Cohan
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385528269
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Finance, Economics, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (5,323 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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