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

Individual homeowners aren’t the only ones suffering during the mortgage crisis. Some of the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders are feeling some pain, too.