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The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed?
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The Motley Fool April 9, 2010 Morgan Housel	The Delicate Art of Misleading Your Shareholders What you see isn't what you get in the banking industry.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2010 Housel & Moscovitz	Now's Your Chance to End Too Big to Fail The best way we can make a difference is for all of us to contact our senators now, and tell them that we need them to support the SAFE Banking Act to put hard caps on bank size and end the need for taxpayer bailouts.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer	Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Alex Dumortier	The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Goldman Sachs Isn't as Good as You Think This look at the numbers shows Goldman Sachs perhaps isn't as golden as its reputation.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	To Mark-to-Market, or Not to Mark-to-Market? As investors and traders keep trying to figure out whether the market has bottomed, or whether Citigroup's health report holds any truth, one question seems to pop up over and over again: Should we jettison mark-to-market accounting? That is the wrong question -- it's really all about leverage.
The Motley Fool April 1, 2010 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers' Bankruptcy: The Greatest Hits An in-depth look at the largest bankruptcy in history.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Dumortier & Khattab	Investment Banks Under the Microscope Investors, which Wall Street firms make the grade? Goldman Sachs... Lehman Brothers... Bear Stearns... Morgan Stanley... Merrill Lynch... etc.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers Holds Tough Despite a wretched week, Lehman battles back liquidity rumors.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2006 Michael Mancini	Lehman: Size Doesn't Matter In what is shaping up to be a record year for most securities firms, Lehman Brothers today announced its fourth-quarter and 2006 full-year results to less fanfare than its investment-banking brethren had earned.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Feelin' All Right at Lehman All in all, stakeholders in Lehman Brothers should be pretty pleased with the way the firm has held up during the market turmoil. Lehman may be quietly doing a lot of things right.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 David Henry	Are Banks Playing It Too Safe? Critics say capital cushions at firms like Goldman are a drag on profits, and healthy banks need more leverage.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	These Banks Are Scarier Than Halloween Little, if anything, has changed in banking, and that's a good reason to be scared.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	The Man Behind the SAFE Banking Act on Fixing Wall Street In a 61-to-33 vote, the Senate voted down an amendment that would have capped the size and leverage of banks in this country. That amendment, dubbed the SAFE Banking Act, was proposed by Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	There's No Recession for Goldman Sachs Record bonuses are in store for Goldman's employees. Is that a good thing?
The Motley Fool June 12, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The I-Banks Ain't Done Yet: Lehman's Earnings Lehman Brothers reported standout second-quarter earnings. For those concerned about the way the major investment banks are financing themselves, the report from Lehman provided little comfort. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	There's No "G" in Lehman Lehman Brothers finished its fiscal first quarter in line with expectations, though it had nothing on Goldman Sachs.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Wall Street's $70 Billion Facade In the wake of Lehman Brothers' failure this weekend, 10 major banks, including the remaining investment banks, are creating a $70 billion fund that any one of the participants can borrow from in a crunch.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	Treasury: The Future of Finance and the Economy The Treasury Department answers our questions.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns.
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The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Morgan Housel	Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly?
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The Motley Fool July 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Christmas Comes Early at Lehman Lehman Brothers decides to award its employees with a down payment on their 2008 bonus, paid in Lehman shares.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Banks: The Problem That Won't Go Die Quietly Massive loan losses still remain on bank balance sheets.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Bank Execs Forgo Bonuses, but Does It Matter? Goldman Sachs announces that seven of its top executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, will forgo bonuses this year. Expect others to follow.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Not Much Lovin' for Lehman Investment bank stocks are often proxies for the market; that's not so good right now. Even with the steep declines in May, Lehman doesn't look like a tremendous bargain for investors.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Why Lehman's Bankruptcy Matters How will Lehman's bankruptcy affect more than just a handful of bankers and traders who work in the world's financial capitals? More importantly, how will it affect you?
The Motley Fool April 19, 2010 Alex Dumortier	Is JPMorgan the New Lehman? Think you know all the risks? Think again.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Morgan Housel	Black Sunday on Wall Street This weekend will go down as one of the most spectacular unravelings in financial history.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Goldstein & Henry	On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2011 Morgan Housel	Disgraced Bank Execs Sail Off Into the Sunset Accounting gimmicks are rife among public companies, regardless of industry. Banks, however, consistently take it to a different level.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2009 Morgan Housel	Morgan Stanley Wants Back in the Game A big push back into sales and trading shows not much has changed on Wall Street.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Morgan Housel	Why You Should Still Avoid Banks Like the Plague Bank accounting pranks happen more often than you might think. Here are other games banks play to mess with reality.
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010	HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences?
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Alex Dumortier	B of A Marries Merrill, Leaves Lehman We went into the weekend thinking Bank of America might rescue Lehman Brothers. In a twist that demonstrates how fluid the current environment is, now Lehman is out, with B of A announcing it will acquire Merrill Lynch in an all-stock deal.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	The Man Behind Congress' Too Big to Fail Remedy Weighs In on Reform Paul Kanjorski says regulators would have more power with the new legislation.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Goldman Feels the Heat Though it wasn't a terrible quarter for Goldman Sachs, it's become apparent that banking is a terrible industry right now. And after a crazy week, some question even Goldman Sachs' future.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan	The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed?
The Motley Fool June 10, 2008 Morgan Housel	You're Making Me Dizzy, Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers isn't doomed yet, but it's hardly out of the woods.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger	We Haven't Learned Lehman's Lesson Yet Economist Simon Johnson reflects on the financial crisis.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Quick Take: Bear Gets Mauled The financial services sector has been under pressure lately, but Bear has taken a bigger hit than average -- it's now down 18% since the beginning of the year. At this point, it looks like Bear may have a raft of hedge fund investor lawsuits to look forward to.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Alex Dumortier	All Eyes on Lehman Lehman beat Goldman to the punch with its earnings report this quarter. Lehman's healthy numbers bolster the notion that broker-dealers have come through a difficult environment relatively unscathed during the third quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Lehman, You Just Don't Get It! Lehman Brothers announces four senior-level appointments in the second round of a management shakeup.