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Why Stocks Unrelated to Mortgage Lending Are Falling As Well

i thought Bear Stearns just let the funds collapse instead of selling assets to cover the funds----"It did this when it refused to sell mortgages at one of its “healthier” funds in order to meet investors’ requests for redemptions."---it couldnt sell the other funds because they would have been 'marked to market' and they didnt want the value of these funds to be 'priced' for 30 cents on the dollar.

is this article comparing apples to apples or apples to volkswagens?