Veel mensen zullen zich nog wel de Disneyfilm Jungle Book herinneren, waarin de beer Baloe het jongetje Mowgli vertelt over de ‘Bear Necessities’.

Toen Bear Stearns gered moest worden van de ondergang, kreeg dit lied ineens een heel andere betekenis, zoals de krant Financial TImes laat zien:

Bear Necessities

Where are the Bear necessities?
No longer trading equities,
Got buried in a landslide of subprime.
I mean the Bear necessities -
Those benchmark Gilts and Treasuries
Forgotten in a sea of banking grime.

Whatever, I wonder,
Became of my home?
My mortgage was squandered
With millions of loans.
And now there’s no liquidity
Banks have been brought down to their knees.
And when they get up,
It may come to pass
That the SEC and the FSA will regulate their ass.
The Bear necessities of trade will come to them.

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