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Is it possible that some of the collapses and near misses in the financial markets over the last six months will ultimately be tied to a few sick and/or greedy people who have used rumors and innuendo to manipulate the market? Government regulators are looking at such a scenario starting with the failure of Bear Stearns in March of this year.

The Journal reported that the SEC is attempting to trace the allegedly false rumors to the original source....

The Federal Reserve offered no explanation for the quarter-point cut in the discount rate on the day of the near-collapse of Bear Stearns in minutes of the March 16 meeting.

The minutes, released Tuesday, said Fed regional banks...

Fears that the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns would cause widespread uncertainty about the financial conditions of other global investment banks and further deepen the credit crunch prompted Federal Reserve officials to engineer the company's rescue plan, New York Fed Bank President Timothy Geithner said.

Geithner outlined the events leading up to the Fed's rescue plan for the troubled New York investment company in Thursday's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.

"The news that Bear's liquidity position was so dire that a bankruptcy filing was imminent presented us with...

Lehman Brothers fought off persistent rumors that it might be headed to a Bear Stearns-like collapse by raising $4 billion in capital on Tuesday.

The fourth-largest U.S. investment bank has taken some hard hits from its participation in the sub-prime market and may also have suffered from bogus rumors pushed by...

The news wasn't surprising but the price tag was a real stunner.

On Sunday J.P. Morgan chase agreed to pay $2 per share to acquire failing Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns, lock, stock, and barrel. And the purchase price, by the way, will be paid entirely in stock and includes purchase of the company's 45 story New York office tower...

Another major American financial institution went on the international auction block Wednesday afternoon as Morgan Stanley announced it was accepting a $5 billion cash infusion from China Investment in return for a stake in the bank estimated to be as high as 9.9 percent.

What is now routinely called "the subprime mortgage mess" is continuing to roil the U.S. economy and last week it again caused major concern in the larger financial markets.