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Go Home Slideshow: The Day Lehman Died

THE PLANK SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Slideshow: The Day Lehman Died

BY NOAH KRISTULA-GREEN

A year ago on September 15, 2008, the financial crisis took a drastic negative turn. The Lehman Brothers investment firm declared bankruptcy, causing a 1,000-point slide in the Dow and triggering a cascade of bank losses that threatened to topple the entire financial system. Click through this slideshow to see scenes from the crash.

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You forgot the slide of Obama's economic team being paid off in the boardroom at Goldman Sachs. Not to mention the one of Obama landing on the deck of the USS Wall Street with the Congressional banking committee chairmen saluting the huge "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner. I can shoot them over to you if you need them. gw

- iambiguous

September 15, 2009 at 3:21am

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Figures that the obsessed George Walton would be the first to offer a worthless comment.

- jacksondyer

September 15, 2009 at 10:24am

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