Why Can’t Jamie Dimon Hold His Own Umbrella?
At this particular moment in time, doesn't it seem a little awkward for the JPMorgan CEO to be cruising around with a Fonzworth Bentley?
Posted 08/16/08 in Daily Intel
It Happened This Week
Falling Dollars
Everything that happened last week, in case you weren't paying attention.
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
Jimmy Cayne Almost Died Trying to Save Bear Stearns
But he's okay! Even if Bear is not. The 73-year-old former Bear Stearns CEO talks about his near-death experience, how he did not smoke pot with that woman (not in a bathroom, anyway), and how he became "roadkill" on the brink of the firm's collapse, all in an epic interview with 'Fortune.'
Posted 07/28/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
The Subprime Awards: The Saddest, Most Hilarious Tales From a Battered Wall Street
The subprime crisis has massacred the city's banks — and resulted in all manner of juicy details related to the subsequent layoffs. Here we hand down awards for the juiciest of these details.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Ralph Cioffi Hangs On to His Dream House
The indicted Bear Stearns hedge-funder may lose almost everything, but he won't lose that tony Hamptons address.
Posted 05/28/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
Bear Stearns: Like ‘Titantic,’ But Without Kate Winslet
A new re-creation of the fall of Bear Stearns has Alan Schwartz as the Captain, Bruce Lisman as the Unsinkable Molly Brown, and Ace Greenberg as the string quartet.
Posted 05/23/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Sandy Weill Pulls Golden Carpet From Underneath Charles Prince
In our daily industry roundup, the former Citigroup chairman second-guesses himself on the appointment of successor Charles Prince. And more!
Posted 05/09/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
AIG's Mess Continues, Right in the Middle of Spring Cleaning
Plus, lawsuits over poop, Andrew Cuomo busting lawyers, and 'USA Today' so wrong, wrong, wrong.
Posted 04/15/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
Should Bear CEO Alan Schwartz Join the Other Team?
Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz, recently relieved of his duties, faces a conundrum. Should he stick with his scrappy team of ragtag bankers? Or join an established "cheerocracy"?
Posted 04/07/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Katie Couric and Sean McManus: Chipper at CBS in Spite of It All
More troubles for Sam Zell, Heather Mills is coming to town, and half of Bear Stearns employees are facing the ax. Click through to read the rest of our news roundup from the fields of media, law, finance and real estate.
Posted 03/31/08 in Daily Intel
Obit
A Eulogy for the Bear
This past weekend, in the wake of former Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne's getting over the denial stage and selling out his shares in the firm, thereby clearing the way for takeover by JPMorgan, 85-year-old Bear Stearns was prepared for death with more pomp and circumstance than an Egyptian pharaoh.
Posted 03/27/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
It Was Bad Enough That Bear Stearns Employees Were Stripped of Their Dignity
But must they take away their window treatments, too?
Posted 03/24/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
Jamie Dimon, Master of the Risk-Averse
Duff McDonald predicts why JPMorgan's bid for Bear Stearns will go through — and why that's probably a good thing.
Posted 03/24/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
JPMorgan Raises Bear Stearns Offer, Fed Balks
Will the Fed back a new Bear deal even if it ticks off taxpayers?
Posted 03/21/08 in Daily Intel
White Men With Money
Help Alan D. Schwartz by Renting His House!
Bear Stearns CEO Alan D. Schwartz, forced to downgrade, will now split his time between only two houses.
Posted 03/20/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Jamie Dimon: ‘Many’ of Bear's 14,000 Employees Will Lose Jobs
Did Bear Stearns collapse in part because of a whisper campaign? How will Starbucks keep its customers if everyone starts pinching pennies? And what did Sarah Jessica Parker think of Maxim naming her the "unsexiest woman alive"? Our weekly roundup of law, media, and business news.
Posted 03/20/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Touching and Feeling With Jamie And Alan
Everyone was feeling a lot yesterday when JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon met with Bear Stearns executives to discuss the changes he'll make when and if his takeover deal of the firm comes to fruition, and a lot of what they were feeling was anger.
Posted 03/19/08 in Daily Intel
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