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  2. Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Lehman Brothers headquarters in New York City, one year prior to bankruptcy. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, also known as the Crash of '08 and the Lehman Shock on September 15, 2008, was the climax of the subprime mortgage crisis.

  3. Lehman Brothers Hastened Its Own Bankruptcy: Report - AOL

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    At $639 billion, Lehman Brothers Holdings' bankruptcy in 2008 was the biggest in U.S. history and touched off a withering financial crisis known as the Great Recession. On Thursday, a federal ...

  4. Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Lehman Brothers Inc. (/ ˈ l iː m ən / LEE-mən) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. [2] Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), with about 25,000 employees worldwide.

  5. Lehman Report: The Business Decisions That Brought Lehman Down

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    According to bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas, the seeds of Lehman's Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy were sown in 2006, aggressively fertilized throughout 2007 and 2008's first two quarters, and ...

  6. Lehman Report: Why the U.S. Balked at Bailing Out Lehman - AOL

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    New York Fed General Counsel Thomas Baxter, who participated in the government's final efforts to save Lehman in the days before its bankruptcy, confirmed to Valukas "In no way was the idea to ...

  7. List of banks acquired or bankrupted in the United States ...

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    In addition, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2008, citing bank debt of $613 billion and $155 billion in bond debt. The solvency of other U.S. banks was severely threatened, forcing the George W. Bush government to intervene with the $700 billion bailout plan of the Troubled Asset ...

  8. Lehman Wants Out of Bankruptcy, Hopes to Start New ... - AOL

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    After more than a year-and-a-half in bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ) wants out. The fallen financial institution hopes to exit Chapter 11 and start semi-fresh, according to a recent bankruptcy ...

  9. Capitol Hill Revisits the Lehman Brothers Collapse

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    Former Lehman chief Dick Fuld blamed the firm's demise on a cliche, saying in his prepared testimony that a "perfect storm of events. . .forced Lehman into bankruptcy." Fuld disputed Bernanke's ...