Word: lehman
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...banking firms, we shrugged and tried to look unconcerned. They might soon be raking in the dough. But we’d just written a screenplay about love among the sea-monkeys. Surely that counted for more in the cosmic balance than a plum internship at Lehman Brothers! Or so we muttered to ourselves as we curled up on our low thread-count sheets every night...
...especially now that most of the endangered financial institutions are commercial banks. The Federal Government has clearly defined that authorities take them over, merge them out of existence or shut them down - whereas it had to make things up as it went along with investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and insurer AIG. That's why the demise of giant banks Washington Mutual and Wachovia, arranged over the past week by the FDIC, occurred in a far more orderly fashion than the non-bank meltdowns...
...Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, he has driven Bear Stearns into the arms of J. P. Morgan at a fire sale price; he has forced the board of Fannie Mae to enable a government takeover even though it meant devastation for shareholders; he has stared down Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers, who thought he could bluff Paulson into saving the firm; and he has negotiated brutal terms with AIG to save them from outright failure with a government bailout...
...financial services industry,” though she said she did not know the percentage of alumni working in that sector.Following a year-long slump, financial markets have nose-dived in recent weeks as a series of financial shocks have hit Wall Street, including the failure of Lehman Brothers, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest government bailout to date, an $85-billion loan to the American Insurance Group, and most recently, the failure Washington Mutual and its subsequent takeover by federal officials in the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Amid concern that...
...difficult-to-sell securities. The legislation gained key support over the weekend from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and is now expected to be passed Monday by both houses of Congress. The plan follows a slew of financial shocks in recent weeks, including the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and most recently, the failure of Washington Mutual and its subsequent seizure by federal regulators, the largest bank failure in American history. While the initial response to Paulson’s plan was favorable, and key lawmakers had signaled...