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Breakfast Links: Bernanke, Mortgage Brokers & Nine Inch Nails

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Filthy mortgage brokers are now calling themselves “Loan Modification Specialists“.  Jason kills it with this post.  (LOLFed) Some color on Ben Bernanke‘s op-ed, published late yesterday in advance of this week’s testimony.  (Bloomberg) Ezra Klein tackles the healthcare debate with an idea that just. might. work.  (Washington Post) ShadowBanker takes…

A Day in the Life: Hank Greenberg

A Day in the Life of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg 7:00 am:  Wake up.  CD alarm clock plays “It’s All Over Now” by The Rolling Stones. 7:05 am:  Mutters “wasn’t my fault” on the way into the shower. 7:30 am:  Breakfast, includes 2 egg whites, one half grapefruit, one heaping bowl of Gorilla Munch cereal (from…

One Year Later: The Fall of Bear Stearns

  It was a day many on The Street will never forget and in many ways, we probably shouldn’t.  The events of March 17th 2008 will forever be a reminder to me that no one is too big, wealthy, established or smart to fail. The night before, on March 16th, a Sunday, the details about…