The Bear movie: Friday the 14th

Bear Stearns’ stock is in free-fall, and insolvency is hours away. Can fresh-faced Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, save the financial system by persuading JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon to buy the ailing form and secure his place in history, even as cigar-chomping Bear chairman Jimmy Cayne sits playing cards? «No Market for Old Men» unfolds against the backdrop of high-stakes trading on Wall Street and byzantine Fed lending rules. Geithner sets out to persuade Fed chairman B...