Lehman, Bear Stearns Execs Cashed In As Their Firms Failed: Study
If you thought that the executives at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns paid dearly in when their firms famously imploded last year, think again. A ne...
If you thought that the executives at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns paid dearly in when their firms famously imploded last year, think again. A ne...
David Fiderer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
As much as anything, what killed Lehman was Dick Fuld's emasculation of the risk management function, which served as a moral compass.
craptheblog.tumblr.com | Moe Tkacik | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Page 120 of Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail addresses the problem of bankers being too dumb to read. (Hey, you can't say Gladwell didn't warn us ...
businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
On November 1st, Philadelphia auction house Freeman's is holding the first of two sales of nearly 700 pieces from Lehman Brothers' private art collect...
Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
New York Times scribe Andrew Ross Sorkin's much-anticipated book Too Big To Fail may be the closest we'll ever get to being a fly on the wall during l...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
With a few exceptions, the Lehman coverage consisted of the usual anniversary fare, from the pedestrian where-are-they-now stories to the handwringing what-have-we-learned pieces.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Maybe Michael Moore's anti-capitalist screed is actually an interesting nexus where right and left converge in hatred of the system that rewards failure and lets the bad guys run the next iteration of the machine.
Reuters | Clare Baldwin, Jui Chakravorty and Jonathan Spicer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
The man vilified for the collapse of Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK) almost a year ago, a failure that triggered the global economic crisis, seemed burdene...
The Observer | Richard Wachman, City Editor | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
Barclays is to pay tens of millions of pounds to its investment bankers, who have made huge profits from trading in government debt, derivatives and f...
Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
As we all know by now, the financial crisis was caused by a series of systematic failures -- botched regulations, corporations that grew to be too big...
New York Times | EDUARDO PORTER | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business
There are probably good reasons to give Richard Fuld a job at the hedge fund Matrix Advisors. He is familiar with byzantine financial products: Lehman...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 06.11.2009 | Style
There are a few ways to get a great haircut for next to nothing. The first way, which I haven't tried yet, but seems extremely promising, is to be a model at the Toni & Guy Academy.
Wall Street Journal | Susanne Craig | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
He's back in the fold. Late Friday an assistant to former Lehman Brothers Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld Jr. sent a blast email sa...
New York Times | David Segal | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
Monday was the last day of Iris Chau's 11-year career at JPMorgan Chase and she says there's a lot she'll miss about the job, including her colleagues...
Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business
The blockbuster article in New York magazine made it clear that Dick Fuld was telling investors and creditors one thing about the health of Lehman Bro...
The Guardian | Julia Kollewe | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
The bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers wants to sell at least $8m (�5.2m) worth of the art collection that once decorated its offices. The new...
New York Times | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business
The chief executive of the failed Lehman Brothers, Richard S. Fuld Jr., will be "terminated" by the investment firm without any bonus, a lawyer for Le...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media
CNN Reporter Abbie Boudreau is shocked -- shocked! -- to find party attendees partaking in a bacchanalia of grooming -- smoking cigars, getting manicures and having their hair cut.
DealBook | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business
Federal prosecutors have issued subpoenas for a dozen Lehman Brothers executives in connection with three grand jury investigations of the investment ...
Business & Media Institute | Jeff Poor | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the ...
New York Times, Reuters, AP | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
**UPDATE** FULD WONDERS WHY LEHMAN WASN'T BAILED OUT When Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was asked whether there was a substantial difference, from a busin...
Daily Show | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business
Jon Stewart outlines the repercussions of the economic crisis for certain archetypes including people like Lehman CEO Dick Fuld, Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal...
FishbowlNY | Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
These headlines are very scary. How bad is this really? Are we looking at soup kitchens? Should we put what little money we have under the pillow? We...
Dealbreaker | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
It is rather shocking (but not) to see how quickly the financial press turns on its former heroes. Truly, very fair weather friends, the press. To wit...
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The Wall Street firm that started the U.S. cotton trade before the Civil War and financed the railroads that built a nation might soo...
Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business