Wells Fargo has a tough sell to make.

The latest telling of our current financial woe is Kate Kelly’s Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street. The author and Wall Street Journal reporter told Media Bistro about tearing through the work of writing the book and then getting back to full-time work at the paper the day after she turned in the manuscript.
“We wanted to get the book out quickly because we knew events were happening very fast in the marketplace,” she explained. “People seemed interested in what was going on in Wall Street and the markets, so for sure …read more

How could it happen? That’s been the question on people’s lips and minds over the last several months. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street helps to explain exactly what happened on Wall Street leading up to the devastation of 2008. And it’s no dry tale of transactions.
In House of Cards, author William Cohan doesn’t give bare facts and theories, he weaves a captivating story of the ten days that revealed financial stalwart Bear Stearns to be nothing but a house of cards subject to the forces of a perfect financial storm. It’s not easy to …read more

An article in GreenBiz news today warns that the Bear Stearns Crisis Could Curb Clean Tech Growth, an industry sector that has been experiencing an investment boom and been on a steady, fast increase. Near the end of 2007, clean tech venture investment hit $2.6 billion up from $590 million in 2000 and with an increase of individual deals from 63 in 2000 to over 160 in 2007.
The ever-expanding credit crisis in the US is rippling through the global economy and GreenBiz reported that “As share prices around the world continued to fall sharply in the wake of the weekend …read more