Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy

In Widely Published Photo, A House That Illustrates The Foreclosure Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 04.24.2012

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ISLIP, N.Y. -- Photographer Spencer Platt spotted the small white house with boarded-up windows and doors a couple months ago, when he was out here on...

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Lehman Brothers Investigator: 'They'd Fudged The Numbers'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.23.2012

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Lehman Brothers, the firm that collapsed four years ago causing a global financial crisis, misrepresented its financial health prior to its bankruptcy...

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Report Highlights Legality Of Lehman Brothers 'Gut Feeling' Business

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.09.2011

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In the years leading up to its collapse, Lehman Brothers nearly doubled its risk and took a scattershot approach to valuing its assets, according to a...

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Lehman Wins Approval To End Largest Bankruptcy In U.S. History

Reuters | Posted 02.05.2012

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NEW YORK - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Tuesday won court approval for its reorganization plan, allowing it to end the largest bankruptcy in U....

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Investors Can Sue S&P In German Court Over Lehman

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Video, Lehman Brothers, Business News, Standard & Poor's, Credit Rating Agencies, S&p Lehman Brothers, Lehman Collapse, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Business News

A German regional court has opened the door to an investor law suit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's over its assessment of Lehman B...

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Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors

Ellen Brown | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Stock Market Crisis, Bear Raids, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Naked Short Selling, Short Selling, Gold and Silver Stocks, Dow Jones, Robert Simpson, Securities Act of 1933, Move Your Money Campaign, Wall Street, Jim Puplava, Business News

Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against global uncertainty? The answer is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.

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3 Years After Lehman Brothers Collapsed, and We Haven't Learned a Friggin' Thing

Jeff Reeves | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers, Financial Reform, Eurozone, Eurozone Crisis, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Economy, Business News

Americans need loans to start businesses, go to college, buy homes, protect themselves in times of crisis and countless other things. The nation needs to relearn how to use debt as a tool to build and protect wealth, not destroy it.

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Goldman Accused Of Purposefully Moving At 'Glacial Pace' In Probe

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Richard Fuld, Goldman Sachs, 2008 Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Hank Paulson, Lehman Brothers, Financial Reform, Business News

(Santosh Nadgir) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc accused Goldman Sachs Group Inc of intentionally trying to delay providing documents related to a ...

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New Financial Reform Law Could Have Resolved Lehman, Regulator Argues

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 06.18.2011

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The failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which caused financial panic and sent markets into a tailspin, could have been avoided had last year's f...

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Megabank Myths

The New York Times | SIMON JOHNSON | Posted 05.31.2011

Back when it really mattered -- last spring, during the debate over the Dodd-Frank financial regulation -- Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, ...

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Lehman Lawyer Fees Close To $2 Billion

DailyFinance | MELLY ALAZRAKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems there are always those who gain from others' misery. In this case, the lawyers and accountants circling Lehman Brothers stand to make more th...

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Sotheby's To Auction Lehman Brothers Art Valued At Over $10 Million

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — More than 400 works from the corporate contemporary art collection once displayed at Lehman Brothers will be auctioned this fall to h...

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Hudson Castle: Lehman Brothers' Secret Debt Mule

New York Times | LOUISE STORY and ERIC DASH | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was like a hidden passage on Wall Street, a secret channel that enabled billions of dollars to flow through Lehman Brothers. In the years befor...

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John Kasich Caught on Tape: 'I Work on Wall Street'

Doug Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Ted Strickland, Lehman Brothers, Ohio, John Kasich, Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Democrats, Republicans, Jogn Kasich Wall Street, Wall Street, Politics News

Since the start of his campaign, Congressman John Kasich has sought to downplay his eight years at Lehman Brothers. Well, we've unearthed footage of a very different Kasich from two years ago.

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Will The Next Three Weeks Change Wall Street Forever?

Lawrence G. McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is critically important the regulators create a level for systemic risk that hedge funds and private equity funds must obey.

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Lehman Sues JPMorgan Over 2008 Collapse

HuffingtonPost/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Update: FOX Business News reports that a JP Morgan senior bank official has called the Lehman Brothers suit a 'total waste of f-----g time." The ...

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SEC, Fed Alerted By Merrill of Lehman Balance Sheet Games in March 2008

Yves Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Both the SEC and the NY Fed were monitoring Lehman on a day-to-day basis shortly after Bear's failure. They recognized that it had a massive hole in its balance sheet, yet took an inertial course of action.

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Lehman Brothers Exploited Fault in Global System to Hide Millions

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Lehman case shows, for one thing, how bankers exploited weaknesses in United States accounting standards -- seemingly without objection from the f...

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Dick Fuld, ex-Lehman Brothers CEO

nypost.com | MARK DeCAMBRE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lehman-Accounting-Scandal, Lehman Report, Valukas Report, Lehman Brothers, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas, Dick Fuld, Business News

He may be one of the most vilified men coming out of the financial crisis, but ex-Lehman Brothers boss Dick Fuld is feeling vindicated in the wake of ...

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Rachel Maddow Questions Geithner About Role At New York Fed: 'Where Were You?' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Reform, Aig, Chris Dodd, New York Fed, Recession, Rachel Maddow Show, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Tim Geithner, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, The Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Treasury Secretary, Video, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner described the nation's financial crisis as "deeply unfair" to average Americans Tuesday, during an interview with ...

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Matthew Lee, Lehman Whistle-Blower's Fate: Fired

wsj.com | MICHAEL CORKERY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ousted a whistle-blower just weeks after he raised red flags about the securities firm's accounting in 2008. Matthew ...

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Brad Hintz, Former Lehman CFO: Firm's Accounting Practices Filled With 'Shenanigans' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with Bloomberg Television this morning, former Lehman Brothers CFO Brad Hintz condemned the firm's executives for camouflaging its bal...

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NY Fed Under Geithner Implicated in Lehman Accounting Fraud Allegation

Yves Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Quite a few observers, including this blogger, have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud...

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Iceland's Pyrrhic Victory

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

While Icelanders have been endlessly debating IceSave, our unemployment rate has continued to climb, the number of insolvencies has continued to increase, and public services have continued to decrease.

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The Times Story On Goldman's Role in AIG's Downfall Is More Damning When Placed In Context

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

Placed in a broader context, the front page story The New York Times is even more damning of Goldman Sachs than readers might realize. Goldman played...

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