Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Bear Stearns

Banks and lendersinvestment-banking

The first big broker-dealer to go, sold to JPMorgan in March 2008 in the run-up to Lehman.

Books 7Experts 2Recommenders 5
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and WretcheHouse of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
T1 House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
William D. Cohan · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bear Stearns's ten-day collapse in March 2008, and the firm's history before it.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Too Big to FailToo Big to Fail
T1 Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Inside the meetings of bankers and regulators during the 2008 financial crisis.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Max Levchin and 1 other

In Fed We TrustIn Fed We Trust
T2 In Fed We Trust
David Wessel · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Federal Reserve under Bernanke in the 2008 crisis, August 2007 to spring 2009.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear SStreet Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns
T2 Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns
Kate Kelly · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

The last three days of Bear Stearns in March 2008, hour by hour.

Memos from the ChairmanMemos from the Chairman
T3 Memos from the Chairman
Alan C. Greenberg · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Greenberg's own memos; the cost culture Bear ran on before it broke.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jeff Bezos

The Rise and Fall of Bear StearnsThe Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
T3 The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
Alan C. Greenberg, Mark Singer · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Memoir by the firm's longtime chairman 'Ace' Greenberg.

Bear Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Bear Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Panic of 2008
T4 Bear Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Panic of 2008
Bill Bamber, Andrew Spencer · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account by a former Bear senior managing director.

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