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In Washington the Government's top economic team stood by with folded arms and watched the company fail. While Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady carefully monitored the situation, the team decided that U.S. financial markets could weather the collapse, in part because junk bonds...
The pitfalls of overreaching were on full view last month when the U.S. retailing empire that Toronto developer Robert Campeau assembled in the '80s was placed under the protection of federal bankruptcy court. A hard-driving raider, Campeau had used junk bonds to help finance the $10.2 billion he paid...
A prime reason is the severely depressed state of the junk-bond market, where shell-shocked investors are wary of buying new issues. Of nearly $300 million in bonds that were scheduled to be sold this month, virtually every offering has been canceled or postponed. Without the ability to tap...
While Congress has been eager to investigate debacles like Drexel's, it has shown little interest in enacting new laws to curb financial markets, even after the 1987 crash. The real lesson of the fall of the most money-mad firm of a money-mad decade is that in any...
For the faithful who spent their days selling bonds and their nights at the juice bar, the holy water was Perrier, a drink with the flavor of old rocks and the price of cheap perfume. Shielded from the light in its distinctive green bowling-pin bottles, Perrier was the drink...