Lehman Brothers
Companiesinvestment-banking
The 2008 bankruptcy that turned a credit crunch into a global panic; the richest single-firm failure literature after Enron.
8 books · 6 people behind it
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- Too Big to FailAndrew Ross Sorkin, 2009
- A Colossal Failure of Common SenseLawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson, 2009
- The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008Peter Chapman, 2010
The people behind it 6
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Founders 1
Executives 1
Journalists 3
Books 8
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009 · The definitive blow-by-blow of the collapse weekend.
Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson · 2009 · Insider account by a former Lehman convertible bond trader.
Laurence M. Ball · 2018 · Academic rebuttal to the claim that rescue was legally impossible.
Peter Chapman · 2010 · The long institutional history, cotton broker to bankruptcy.
Jared Dillian · 2011 · Insider memoir by a Lehman ETF trader.
Oonagh McDonald · 2015 · Focused on accounting and Repo 105.
Joseph Tibman · 2009 · Pseudonymous insider account.