Bartek Ringwelski News Today

The night JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy the bank for $2 a share, a $2 bill was taped to the revolving door of Bear Stearns’s headquarters — a prank that created one of the defining images of the financial crisis.

It was a prank that created one of the defining images of the financial crisis. But the people behind it had remained a secret until now.