Bear Stearns

  

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Formerly great, now dead Wall Street firm founded by legendary Ace Greenberg.

The company was the first dead canary in the mineshaft during the Subprime mortgage crisis of 2008/9. All that was left at the end was the building they owned, which was auctioned off among the then-liquid vultures.

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Finance allah shmoop what is a bear raid So this

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is a bear raid and this is a bear raid

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And you knew you were going there Well i think

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there's fraud fraud i tell you Well i think their

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product just doesn't mean anything anymore Well i think that

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with all those risk they're just trade me in it

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too high a multiple Isn't the government going to regulate

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them I thought that was a union coming in there

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What are these people doing Are they rationally commenting on

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honest things they actually believe are elements of the stock

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No not at all In fact all of them shorted

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the stock it's sixty bucks a share making the bet

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that the stock would go down only now courtesy of

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the wall street genius journalists being manipulated at the new

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socialist times the group is spreading lies trickery and deceit

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about stock prices Manipulating the market hoping to profit from

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all the negative sentiment they've poured out there into the

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ether making already nervous investors very nervous And it was

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easy to get the journalist cooperate because well they hate

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rich people Right All right Well if they covered it

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thirty five that is unwound They're short position which started

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at sixty bucks a share Well they'd have made twenty

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five dollars a share in profits and that's totally illegal

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