GOLDMAN SACHS: The short-term debt business has continued to operate, with innovation and stability the keywords for Goldman
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Ignorance about the importance of short-term debt financing was common, even in financial circles, before the collapses of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Not any longer. It was, after all, the withdrawal of short-term funding at Bear that precipitated its demise.