Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Washington the Government's top economic team stood by with folded arms and watched the company fail. While Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady carefully monitored the situation, the team decided that U.S. financial markets could weather the collapse, in part because junk bonds were already trading near all-time lows. Said an embittered Drexel executive: "What we needed was a pittance, and the Government decided just to let the company go. With a little nudge from the Government, the banks would have put a package together...
...pitfalls of overreaching were on full view last month when the U.S. retailing empire that Toronto developer Robert Campeau assembled in the '80s was placed under the protection of federal bankruptcy court. A hard-driving raider, Campeau had used junk bonds to help finance the $10.2 billion he paid for Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, whose ten chains include Bloomingdale's, Stern's and Jordan Marsh...
...prime reason is the severely depressed state of the junk-bond market, where shell-shocked investors are wary of buying new issues. Of nearly $300 million in bonds that were scheduled to be sold this month, virtually every offering has been canceled or postponed. Without the ability to tap the junk market, would-be raiders will no longer be able to take aim at substantial targets...
...crash. The real lesson of the fall of the most money-mad firm of a money-mad decade is that in any free market, a heedless competitor can lead virtually the whole industry astray. The pendulum is swinging back now, but the impact of the debt that Drexel's junk bonds loaded on corporate America will not vanish as swiftly as the perpetrator...
...most powerful firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties was at the center of a gold-rush culture that bankrolled corporate raiders and often seemed consumed by vanity, ego and greed. Drexel vanished almost overnight last week when its parent company, a victim of the very junk-bond market that Drexel had created, filed for bankruptcy. The firm's legacy is a debt-laden corporate America and a backlash against excess...