Tag: Lehman Brothers
Leadership Presupposes Morality
“A lot of what goes on these days with high-flying companies and these overpaid CEOs, who’re really just looting from the top and aren’t...
Banking On Failure: Fixing Banking
Banks are junk. Such is one conclusion of the previous chapter. We also note that a government’s guarantee of its banks is expensive...
Banking On Failure: Junk Banks
Editor’s Note: This is the next in a Continuing Series of Articles by Joe, as excerpted from his Book; “Banking on Failure” co-authored by...
Lawrence G. McDonald: Inside The Fall Of Lehman Brothers
Lawrence G. McDonald is co-author of the New York Times best seller A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse...
There’s A Disease Eating Away at Many Organisations
by Andrew Leigh, Featured Contributor
IT HAS MANY NAMES, but the best of them is “wilful blindness.” Another is conscious avoidance or ostrich tendency. Whatever you...
The Most Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves
Before starting a business, there are four characteristics an entrepreneur should have, or look for in their partners.The odds are stacked against entrepreneurs. Most...
The Dick Fuld Denial
Richard Fuld, the former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers, is the Shaggy of finance. On the cause of the financial crisis and the...
What Will the Next Financial Crisis Look Like – And Are...
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the repercussions were so severe that when...
The Lehman Brothers Ethos Fades at Barclays
For many people, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. died in the early hours of Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, when the Wall Street firm filed for...
Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says
The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments...
