Breathtaking Hubris
Apr 4th, 2008 | By Dave Gonigam | Category: Politics & EconomicsLike the Bourbons, Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz has learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. Amid five hours of blather on Capitol Hill yesterday about the credit markets’ near-meltdown, Schwartz explained away the demise of his firm with a rationalization that even OPEC ministers no longer believe when trying to explain high oil prices: in his own words, it was “unfounded rumors and attendant speculation.”