The Day I Landed in New York, Bear Stearns Collapsed (Douglas Boneparth)

The Day I Landed in New York, Bear Stearns Collapsed (Douglas Boneparth)

February 20, 2026 · 37 min

About this episode

Douglas Boneparth shares his experience of moving to New York on the day Bear Stearns collapsed during the Great Financial Crisis.

What's it like to start over in a new city on the day the financial world begins to fall apart? Douglas Boneparth flew into JFK in October 2008 with four boxes and a mattress to buy — and landed in the middle of the Great Financial Crisis. He didn't go home. Boneparth is a CFP, president of Bone Fide Wealth, and co-author with his wife Heather of Money Together. His path to New York started in the retirement communities of Boca Raton, where as a teenager he and his brother ran a computer repa...

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