Who was the CEO of Lehman Brothers when it failed? Richard (Dick) Fuldwas the last CEO of Lehman Brothers prior to its collapse ten years ago on 15 September 2018. After years of avoiding the public eye, Fuld has been rebuilding his career as CEO of wealth and asset management firm Matr...
The day was Monday, September 15, 2008. Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. filed for bankruptcy, and the future of a financial behemoth holding more than $600 billion in assets and thatemployed 25,000 peoplewas sent into disarray. It was the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. "It w...
This will not be a long piece. It is not a memorial to Lehman Brothers nor is it an honorarium to the system that created Lehman, then crushed it along with a wide swath of American wealth and capital as well. This is not a tribute to government leaders such as Henry Paulson and othe...
It is likely that on his own Nixon would never have committed half a million soldiers to an unwinnable war in Southeast Asia, as Johnson, McNamara, Rusk, and the Bundy brothers did. But how to end it? The foreign policy successes did not lessen the amount of civil unrest in the nation...
Postmodernism at its creepiestis the Chambers Brothers singing "The Time Has Come Today" in a commercial for Fidelity Investments, and the Kinks singing "All Day and All of the Night" in a commercial for Jolly Rancher fruit drink, and Janis Joplin singing "Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a...