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Leverett - Leverett festivities will be in the Junior Common Room this evening with snacks and beverages...
Pfoho - Pforzheimer House is holding a Super Bowl Stein Club in the Holmes Junior Common Room. Beer, buffalo wings, and chips will be making a presence...
Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was a junior in college, said he was trading derivatives for the firm. Surprised, McDonald asked the intern the size of his pad - Wall Street-speak for how much of the firm's money he was able to trade - figuring it couldn't be much. The intern's response: $150 million...
...intern, of course, wasn't the only one who was risking the firm's dollars. McDonald, himself a relatively junior trader, had a Lehman-funded trading account of $450 million. In the years leading up to the financial crisis, Lehman Brothers built up huge positions in real estate, derivatives and bonds. That all came crashing down in the fall of 2008, when the tumbling housing market and rising mortgage defaults caused the credit markets to seize up. In all, Lehman lost more than $32 billion from proprietary trading and principal transactions during the year and a half leading...
That was the last straw for Quincy: he dismissed seven freshmen, one junior, seven seniors—and the entire sophomore class...