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    Moral Hazard Case Study

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    organizations involving moral hazard must be viewed on a case by case nature. If part of an organization or an individual puts themselves in a poor situation that requires them to be helped, a leader cannot just turn and walk away. A leader must assume that the questionable choices were made with the best of intentions in mind. A leader must also be mindful of the effects of allowing one unit to fail will have on the entire organization, or in the cases that Paulson and Bernanke faced what effect one organizational failure will have on another’s sustainability. I feel Paulson and Bernanke kept the larger picture in mind and managed each situation independently of one another. Paulson warned Lehman Brothers far in advance and when they helped Stearns, the men again warned the banks on Wall Street to be proactive and find a means to sustain their own organizations (2009). Leaders cannot help everyone, but they must attempt to assist in some cases, keeping the bigger picture in mind, and without allowing themselves to be taken advantage…

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    The most important one was purchasing Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual when these two companies met bankrupt because of financial crisis. Those two companies both had significant impacts on the whole financial environment. So if they went bankrupt, the financial market would be badly shocked and lots of employees would lose their jobs. This behavior also contributed to the increase of JPMorgan’s own total asset, rising from $1562147mil at end-2007 to $2175052mil at end-2008 and helped itself…

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    Bear Stearns Case Study

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    described Bear Stearns as “an investment bank that survived the Great Depression only to succumb to the Great Recession.” Founded in 1923, Bear Stearns was a big investment bank which offered a series of financial services including, but not limited to securities, hedge funds, and brokerage. Following the real estate crisis in 2006, two of Bear Stearns hedge fund firms High-Grade Structured-Credit Strategies Fund and Enhanced Leverage Fund with investments in mortgages began to crack. Bear…

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    Bear Stearns Case Summary

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    he problem Bear Stearns under the auspices of two hedge funds through its subsidiary, Bear Stearns Asset Management. The main fund, the structural fund high-quality credit strategies, and consists of a complex Derivatives backed by mortgages. During most of his life was very profitable but also The housing market began to stutter in late 2006 suffered returns. It has been collected in this fund 35 His times the money invested. With the deterioration of the proceeds of the two funds market sank.…

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    JP Morgan Chase Case Study

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    Introduction I chose the national bank JP Morgan Chase. The reason I chose this global company is because I wanted to research a topic that was a part of my major. I want to major in finance and possibly accounting then one day go into banking so I saw it fitting that I chose this company. “JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest and best-known financial institutions in the world.” (JP Morgan Chase 2016). This company goes all the way back to 1799. JP Morgan Chase operates in over…

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    400 billion. Their assets however were highly leveraged and this was a significant cause for their failure during the crisis. They had no way of compensating for their collateralized debt obligations and they ultimately failed. They had to get bailed out by the Fed and sold to JP Morgan Chase for $10 a share, which is insane to think about considering their stock was trading for over $90 dollars a share earlier in 2008. The main failure of Bear Stearns is due to negligence on risk management and…

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    Giant Panda Essay

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    The giant panda, also known as panda bear is a bear that is native to south central China. The scientific classification of the giant panda is that it originates from the kingdom: Animalia, phylum: Chordata, class: Mammalia, family: Ursidae, genus: Ailuropoda, and species: A. melanoleuca3. The giant panda has been added to the endangered species list in 2007. Conservation needs to be done by humans to prevent damage to the world that humans have caused. Without conservation, our lives will…

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    activities. The law keepers in Moosefactory are similarly trapped in the “web” of the Netmakers, this is continuously seen in the novel when the police neglect the crimes against Will perpetrated by the Netmakers. Quotation. For the residents of Moosefactory the only way to survive is to abide to the social laws set by the Netmakers. In Will’s narrative the brown bear is symbolic of the need of community for survival. Will comes across the bear on a run and though initially threatened by the…

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    I am 12 years old and I got my first bear last year. I also got a huge in 2012. My dad wanted to make sure we got the opportunity to hunt bear before bear hunting gets restricted. So, my dad called Shepard Hunting Co. and he said a hound hunt would probably be best for us. All summer I was excited for fall to come and the hunt to begin. We started preparing a week or two prior and the night before we left I could hardly sleep, I was so excited. The next day we left around 11:00-11:30 am and we…

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    The Animal Collector In a large enterprise building, the CEO Mr Gregory lies nonchalantly on his revolving chair covered with the lush brown coat of a grizzly bear. He was looking out into the marvelous Settle skyline through a floor-to-ceiling window when his attention was attracted to something else, it was a palm-sized specimen of an endangered mouse-lemur he had recently obtained from Madagascar placed on an elaborate stand on his desk. It had eyes just as bright and lively as it was…

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