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A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of lehman brothers

✍ Scribed by Lehman Brothers (1993-2008);McDonald, Lawrence G.;Robinson, Patrick

Publisher: Crown Business
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 276 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, United States.
ISBN: 0307588351

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✦ Synopsis

What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.;A rocky road to Wall Street -- Scaring Morgan Stanley to death -- Only the Bears smiled -- The man in the ivory tower -- A miracle on the waterway -- The day Delta Air Lines went bust -- The tragedy of General Motors -- The mortgage bonanza blows out -- King Richard Thunders forward -- a 100 million dollar crash for subprime's biggest beast -- Wall Street stunned as Kirk quits -- Fuld, defiant to the end.

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