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It’s going to be really interesting to see how this plays out … Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s estate sued J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., alleging J.P. Morgan illegally siphoned billions of dollars from Lehman in the days before the troubled investment bank filed for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The lawsuit alleges that [...] The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider’s Look at the Global Meltdown On the first anniversary of the murder of Lehman Brothers, Joseph Tibman, a 20-year veteran and senior investment banker, reveals in plain English, the people and forces that share responsibility for this catastrophe. His shattering account is told as only a true Lehman [...] Ever wanted to know what causes a major investment bank to go belly-up? On January 29, 2008, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (“LBHI”) reported record revenues of nearly $60 billion and record earnings in excess of $4 billion for its fiscal year ending November 30, 2007. During January 2008, Lehman’s stock traded as high as $65.73 [...] You’ve heard of pay-for-play, right? How about pay-for-pay? Here’s an idea that seems to make some sense. Don’t limit Wall Street pay and bonuses, but require higher FDIC premium payments if a bank’s pay structure is deemed to be “risky”, such as incentive bonuses for writing more loans (which leads to bankers writing riskier loans). [...] I knew it! Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley Panic – WSJ.com Two days after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. sought bankruptcy protection, an explosive rumor spread that another big Wall Street firm, Morgan Stanley, was on the brink of failure. The chatter on trading desks that Sept. 17 was that Deutsche Bank AG had yanked a [...] Okay; I can honestly say that I didn’t see this happening. I figured that Citigroup, like Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, would both be strong enough to weather almost anything the economy could throw at them, but their recent stock movements are highly precipitous. Citi Weighs Its Options, Including Firm’s Sale – WSJ.com [...] Without a Bailout Plan, What Will the Cost Be? – TIME By voting down the proposed $700 billion financial bailout package — and causing a spectacular stock market rout — a majority of members in the House of Representatives made a clear statement that they didn’t want to put taxpayers on the hook for the [...] Shorts face big Mack attack- Sep. 17, 2008 The Morgan Stanley chief goes on the offensive after a solid earnings report fails to halt the stock’s collapse. FORTUNE (New York) — For Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the two remaining standalone investment banks, the world has become an ugly place. So ugly, in fact, that [...] |
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