Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

A Bad Bear Stearns Trade Can Teach Investors a Lot

It doesn’t have to take a decade to learn some valuable lessons.

“Money is made slowly and lost quickly” just scratches the surface.

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What do you do when a trade goes awry?

That was the subtext of a Wall Street Journal column on Christmas Day, “Eleven Years in the Making: Breaking Even on JPMorgan’s Purchase of Bear Stearns.”