Neither man, it seems, is willing to admit that a bear is a bear is a bear.
Gary Shilling, the bear's bear, once told me to look at copper prices as a measure of global industrial activity.
Of the two types of bear, the brown bear and the grizzly, one kills you and the other kills you and eats you.
Radiocarbon dating found the skull was from the peak of the last Ice Age ruling out it was a cave bear, or a brown bear.
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Largely because of these concerns, the Federal Reserve took actions that facilitated the purchase of Bear Stearns and the assumption of Bear's financial obligations by JPMorgan Chase and Company.
You can't find a time in the 20th century when, less than five months into a real global bear market, people were talking bear market and recession in any visible numbers.
One interesting point I found is that generally in a longer-term secular bear market, the absolute low of that bear market is generally reached in the middle of the bear market.
Some of the time, our hero is accompanied by his manager, Azamat (Ken Davitian), and also by a live bear, although Azamat looks more like a bear than the bear does.
There was a bear raid on Bear Stearns starting March 10 that sent its stock plummeting 60% in the span of five days on trading volume that exceeded its total shares outstanding.
Although teddies were invented in Germany and the US in 1902, it was the British who took the teddy bear to their hearts and opened bear making factories all over the country.
The low of the cyclical bear market that took place about 9 years into both of those previous secular bear markets was the lowest low reached during the long secular bear markets.
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While some of its effects are inevitable (some polar bear habitat absolutely will be lost, Derocher said), there are longer-term solutions that could help save some of the polar-bear-ness of the polar bear.
Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
"After years of delay, the Bush administration was forced to face the reality that global warming has endangered the polar bear and that the polar bear needs to be placed on the Endangered Species Act, " said Markey in a statement to CNN.
Former Bear chief executives James Cayne and Alan Schwartz testified that they could not have foreseen the severe disruptions in the credit markets that ultimately led to a run on Bear Stearns in March 2008 and that they were as shocked as anyone when Bear had to be rescued by JPMorgan Chase with government help.
The SEC will also expand an investigation begun earlier this year into short selling in shares of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, two investment banks that have been forced out of existence (in Bear Stearns case, by way of a rescue by JPMorgan Chase, and in Lehman's, by bankruptcy) in the wake of bear raids on their stocks.
He shot a gray wolf and a black bear, firing his pistol as the bear charged at him.
The first bear market rally of the 2007-2009 bear market had ended 3 days earlier on Dec. 10.
Why should depositors of an insolvent bank not bear such losses, or large depositors not bear the bulk of them?
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Get ready to invest in a 2012 to 2017 sustained bear rally in stocks, similar to the bear rally of 1932 to 1936.
And obviously the burden that both our troops and our families bear in any wartime situation is going to bear on how I see these conflicts.
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Once the up trend connecting the lows since March 2009 broke, I stated that we were in a new bear market ( See Welcome To The New Bear Market For Stocks).
Nowadays, there are shops which sell only teddy bears, there are teddy bear museums in many countries, and teddy bear festivals regularly take place in Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan.
State officials will intervene if there is a human-bear situation, with the aim of frightening the bear away or capturing it.
On Monday morning, JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns announced that JPMorgan will each share of Bear Stearns stock will now be exchanged for 0.21753 shares of JPMorgan, up from 0.05473 shares.
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Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, filed suit yesterday against JPMorgan Chase for the sins of Bear Stearns committed prior to the distressed purchase of Bear Stearns by the bank in 2008.
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Bear Stearns ousted Richard Marin last month as head of Bear Stearns Asset Management, which oversees the funds, and brought in a ringer from Lehman, Jeffrey Lane, to restore confidence.
In New Mexico, the Little Bear Recovery Team is helping residents affected by the Little Bear Fire, which has burned burned 44, 330 acres and is at 90% containment, according to the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
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