TY - BOOK AU - Bamber,Bill AU - Spencer,Andrew TI - Bear trap: the fall of Bear Stearns and the panic of 2008 SN - 9781883283636 AV - HB3722 .D622 2008 U1 - 332.0973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Brick Tower Press KW - Bear, Stearns & Co KW - History KW - sears KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Corporate mergers and acquisitions KW - Economic policy KW - Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) N1 - Includes index; Foreword / Fernando Diz -- Of bulls and bears -- Hedge your bets -- Shoot to kill -- Truth is what you make it -- Circular reasoning -- No news is good news -- Bleeding out -- A sucker born every minute -- Brother can you spare a dime? -- To the victors go the spoils -- Business as usual -- The devil is in the details -- What do you say when it's over? -- Survival of the fittest -- So what? N2 - Recounts the financial crisis which precipitated the fall of one of Wall Street's most prestigious and oldest firms, examining the role of the foreign financial markets and the federal government in the collapse ER -