Lehman

Lehman Brothers Lehman Hid Money With Help of Global Rules – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com The Lehman Report: Is It Time for a Special Prosecutor?: Rational Irrationality : The New Yorker Lehman: Regulators Chose to Deny, Extend and…

Lehman Lehman Whistle-Blower's Fate: Fired – WSJ.com Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal : CJR ABN Amro hielp Lehman bij manipulatie – Het Financieele Dagblad Dealbook Column – At Lehman, Watchdogs Saw It All –…

Tea Party Avoids Divisive Social Issues – NYTimes.com What's Happening to China's Migrant Workers? A New Generation Coming and Going – The China Sourcing Blog States may hold onto tax refunds for months – USATODAY.com Fed Helped Bank…

Apparently, some of the ‘best reforms’ now being instituted in the U.S. to prevent a liquidity crisis in the future include limitations on demand deposits (hat tip Karl Denninger). What financial institutions are trying to prevent is a bank…

There are a lot of interlocking threads in the Greek saga. One consistent theme that ties all of the different threads together is the fragility of complex systems. In our globalized and complex world of finance and banking, every major…

Today President Obama is set to propose wide-ranging moves on bank regulation first proposed by his economic advisor Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve Chairman. Details of the proposal have yet to be released. However, the focus is…

Damaging e-mails have revealed that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged AIG to withhold crucial information about the deterioration of its financial condition in the lead up to its demise.  This will put further political…

This is my translation of a Dutch-language article which appeared today in Belgian daily De Tijd. Let’s see if this news is picked up in the U.S. Citibank Belgium never should have recommended the controversial Lehman Brothers…

Bankruptcy is a necessary part of a free market. I certainly believe this to be so. Rick Newman, who writes the blog "Flow Chart" over at U.S. News, is putting forward the provocative idea that failure is exactly what we needed more of in…

This is the time of year when everyone tends to look back and sum up the year in one way or another. I have been doing much of the same. In keeping with that theme, I have taken a good look through my nearly 1400 posts to get a better…