Sure enough, after a few bounces, the limb snapped and the bear toppled, only to execute an acrobatic save to end up standing on its hind legs, nonchalantly, as if nothing embarrassing had happened.

There was a regressive quality to his cartoonishly large Nordic sweaters, felt boots that were like the rural cousins of ...

Alan “Ace” Greenberg was not only one of the “smartest arbitrageurs” on Wall Street, he stood at the helm of Bear Stearns when it was a “highly profitable machine,” said Henny Sender ...