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Bryan Marsal on the Unwinding of Lehman Brothers

Breakout Performance (Free subscription) | yesterday

Enjoyed this interview from July 09 with Bryan Marsal of Alvarez & Marsal on the unwinding of Lehman Brothers:

Pro-Con | Should former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair have spoken on ethics at a university when he was fired for making up stories?

News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What’s next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere’s snarky tone recently when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak at a journalism conference there.

I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs - Times Online

Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs - Times Online : ..."Goldman is coining it again for two reasons. First, global markets are booming — up 50% from the credit-crunch lows, as new money, much of it from governments, has gushed into the financial system. Second, with Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns off the street, Merrill Lynch a crippled shadow of its former self, and neither...

Nomura sued for sex and race discrimination

Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A few months back, I posted about an article that claimed former female employees of Lehman Brothers were being made to serve tea after their company was taken over by Nomura Holdings. The article implied that women used to the Lehman’s treatment of female employees found the conditions at Nomura to unfair and demeaning. Now it [...]

Fannie Mae seeks claims worth $15.8 bn from Lehman

Times of India (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Battered mortgage lender Fannie Mae has sought claims to the tune of $15.8 billion from bankrupt Lehman Brothers, mainly related to derivatives contracts.

("Bush &) Obama's Trillion Dollar Bailouts -- Questions that won't die

Bleier's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Trillion $ Bailouts – Questions that won’t die by Ronald Bleier 11.6.09 A major political question that doesn’t want to die is whether the billion and trillion dollar Wall Street bailouts that Washington handed out were necessary to keep the economy from disintegrating. Despite the persistence of the question, the only answer seemingly allowed in the mainstream is the monotonously...

Kanjo the trust buster

Gort42 (Free subscription) | yesterday

A year ago the whole banking system in the United States and other countries came close to melting down. When Lehman Brothers failed and it looked like other giant investment banks might follow the government went into panic pass mode and the Congress authorized a $1 Trillion bailout that enraged just about about everybody on both the left and right. We were told that the big Wall Street firms were...

The Inference of Fraud

Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

What is not given but must be taken? False Flag Operations by David M Shapiro CUNY Academic Commons (October 31 2009) My favorite topic since 9/11 is the financial crisis. Some outstanding issues that I've yet to see credibly addressed by US leaders are the following: 1. Why did none of the financial institutions that allegedly needed (and actually received) TARP funds beginning in the Fall of 2008...

Satisfied With Bernie by digby Where do...

Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Satisfied With Bernie by digby Where do you suppose Democratic voters got the ridiculous idea that the new administration was going to take on the malefactors of great wealth if they got elected? And why do you suppose they aren't enthusiastic about the Democratic majority right now? James Lieber in the Village Voice has written a piece that I believe goes some way to explain it, called: "We've...

Hot OTC Pink Sheets Stocks November 6 2009

Stock Market Analysis (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The following is a list of the Most Popular OTC , OTCBB, Pink Sheets Stocks going into November 9, 2009. Topping the list today is CIT Group Inc. (CITGQ.PK). This list shows you which stocks traders and investors consider " Hot " which makes for great trading. These are the stocks that I will be monitoring today and tomorrow for daytrading opportunities. This list is my favorite way to track...

Another Downside of Limiting the Pay of Bankers

IPE at UNC (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

A while back Alex and I went around on whether limiting the pay of bankers would make the system more stable. Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus are asking the same question : The real scandal of bankers’ pay contributing to the financial crisis is that nobody, literally nobody, has offered a shred of evidence that it did contribute to the crisis. Yet public opinion, the financial press, and...

Setback for Lehman creditors as court blocks PwC plan

Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Creditors of Lehman Brothers are facing further delay after a radical plan designed to speed up the investment bank’s administration was shot down for a second time this morning.

U.K. Court Rejects Lehman Plan

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Former clients of Lehman Brothers' European arm were struck a further blow when the U.K. Court of Appeal rejected an appeal from the bank's administrators to use a bespoke legal tool to expedite the return of $9 billion in client assets.

Lehman Europe wind-up plan rejected

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

A PwC plan to help speed up the winding-up of Lehman Brothers in Europe was rejected by the Court of Appeal on Friday

Teaching failure may be best lesson for the future

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about journalistic ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., announced that Mr. Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there. But if the cheap irony of a famous fabulist...

• Analysis: Failure 101: a class students could use - San Fransisco Chronicle
• Analysis: Failure 101: a class students could use - Arizona Republic
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

SCOOP NEWS financial crisis a year after

wposteruk | 18/09/2009

Since the beginning of the financial crisis caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there's just one year, the attitude of traders has not really changed. It seems they were content to let the storm pass and are still as influential in the world of finance More ... (more. ..)

The Trees Are Falling...

caffeinenights | 27/11/2008

Surviving the next year is going to be a major challenge for many publishers and businesses in general, small and large alike. There are no longer any guarantees of safety for anyone. Many household names have been shaken to their foundations and some have tumbled into the abyss. Lehman Brothers in the US, HBOS in the UK, GM, Woolworth, Citigroup, all of them going, going, gone! Book sellers are undoubtedly

Friends on Wall St.

Brad Johnson | 15/10/2008

National Attention Given To “Friends On Wall St. A New Release Now Playing Coast To Coast After watching The House Committee question Richard S. Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers on C-SPAN last week, country music artist Billy Craig wrote a timely classic called FRIENDS ON WALL ST. “I wrote the lyrics, emailed them over to some friends and got a huge response” said Billy. In turn, his national promotions...