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Author:

McDonald, Lawrence G.

Title:

A colossal failure of common sense : the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers / Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Crown Business,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 351 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Lehman Brothers (1993- )--History.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises--United States.
Lehman Brothers.
Investeringen.
Faillissement.

Other Authors:

Robinson, Patrick, 1939-

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0307588335
9780307588333

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426150200

LCCN:

2009442068

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