Word: morganize
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...headed dealmaker Paulson was going to squeeze what he wanted out of Congress. Over the last six months, with the help of Tim Geithner at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, he has driven Bear Stearns into the arms of J. P. Morgan at a fire sale price; he has forced the board of Fannie Mae to enable a government takeover even though it meant devastation for shareholders; he has stared down Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers, who thought he could bluff Paulson into saving the firm; and he has negotiated brutal terms...
...there is trouble in paradise. Industry stalwarts Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers have vanished into the ether, while fellow bulge-bracket Merrill Lynch was engulfed by Bank of America. Even the top firms Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have agreed to become bank holding companies, subjecting themselves to restrictive regulations in return for greater access to liquidity from...
...urgency of the task at hand was underscored by the news Friday that yet another financial institution - Washington Mutual of Seattle - had been taken over by the government and had most of its assets sold off to JP Morgan Chase. Even Democrats were unsettled by the urgency with which they were being called upon to act in the face of what the Bush Administration was warning is an imminent threat. "It's not like our guys are saying, 'We really want to pass this bill.' We've seen this before," noted one Democratic Capitol Hill veteran, alluding...
...city is now the nation's No. 2 financial center behind New York City. In early September, Bank of America, the behemoth of North Tryon and the largest U.S. bank, swallowed the beleaguered investment firm Merrill Lynch, while Wachovia, its competitor on South Tryon, considered a merger with Morgan Stanley. And while the rest of the country is sinking, Charlotte is soaring, with 28 construction cranes downtown. It's got the nation's least-battered metropolitan-housing market, lowest office-vacancy rates and fastest-growing airport. It hosts the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and the NFL's Carolina Panthers...
...understand Charlotte, you have to understand our ambition," says chamber of commerce head Bob Morgan. "We have a serious chip on our shoulder. We don't want to be No. 2 to anybody." Civic leaders often compare their city to New York, Chicago, and even London. On Sept. 11, 2001, McCrory notes, with a sly grin, that local banks swiftly evacuated their skyscrapers: "Everyone in Charlotte assumed we were next...