Lehman Brothers Archive

  • The Last Days of Lehman Brothers – The Movie

    The Last Days of Lehman Brothers – The Movie

    On 12 September 2008 the heads of Wall Street’s three biggest investment banks are summoned to a late afternoon meeting at the New York Federal Reserve. After six months of turmoil in the world’s financial markets Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest player on Wall Street, is on life support and the government is about to [...]

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  • BBC: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis

    BBC: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis

    A documentary on the financial system hosted by the cheery Evan Davies, in three parts. Starting with a story about a mistake made by NASA when the engineers used imperial measurments while the engineers thought they were using metric, causing an unmanned spaceship to explode, Evan compared this to the $100 billion gone from the banking [...]

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