The Patriot Ledger Remembering a day that was too big to forget This month marks the anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns, once Wall Street’s fifth-largest investment bank. The demise of the 85-year old institution signaled the real start of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Eight years later, we can only hope our leaders learned something from the experience. The collapse and Bear’s subsequent bailout by the […]