Not so many months after Bear Stearns had been bought at a bargain price, why was Lehman Brothers allowed to fail? I don't understand that. ... I think they thought they were going to do a sale to ...

We did not supervise Bear Stearns. We did not have supervisory power over Lehman Brothers. We did not have supervisory power over AIG. But the role of a central bank in a crisis, in a panic -- and ...

And everyone knew, after Bear Stearns, which bank was next in the firing line: Lehman Brothers. The value of Lehman shares had already collapsed by more than 70% by the time September 2008 came ...

Two of its members -- Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns -- lost billions and are no more, leaving the industry feeling, well, insecure. Now SIFMA is trying to rebound, says VP Howard Sprow ...

Most commentators assumed that the US authorities had made a mistake in allowing Lehman to fail. It was not as if the failure was a surprise ... to be already recovering in the summer of 2008 from the ...

It was prompted by the total collapse of the Lehman Brothers bank in 2008, which was the first of the big banks to fall, followed quickly by Bear Stearns, and the whole American financial system ...

During the 2008 financial crisis, the firm represented several banks, including AIG, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. Sullivan & Cromwell is national coordinating litigation counsel to Volkswagen ...

The year 2008 was the year of bailouts (Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers); the stock market had the worst crash since the Great Depression; oil hit an all-time high of $147 ...