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...The opera could have been written yesterday, but it was actually 1933 when composer Kurt Weill and playwright Georg Kaiser conceived it....
...But unlike Lehman Brothers, the East India Company really was too big to fail....
...In the 2000s, Lehman Brothers ran to the cliff, along with every brother lemming in a financial world teeming towards self-destruction....
...Annual growth in productivity has plummeted from average annual rates of about 2.3 per cent before the collapse of Lehman Brothers to 0.4 per cent in the past decade....
...“The history is different,” Kurt Björklund, co-head of London-based Permira, says....
...Steinbrück predicted in 2008, in the wake of Lehman Brothers’s bankruptcy, that the United States’ days as a financial superpower were numbered....
...Outside of sharp economic downturns such as those after September 11 2001 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, selling to rich people has been a consistently good business....
...“The industry has recovered substantially since the Lehman shock,” says Masatoshi Nishimoto, an analyst at CSM Worldwide, an automotive research firm....
...Sleep-at-night-money lost in Lehman lesson missing $63 billion – Bloomberg Like ice-nine, the fictitious substance in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s 1963 novel “Cat’s Cradle,” a single seed of which could harden all...
...“We have been seeing…contraction at a very rapid rate and now that rate is slowing dramatically,” said Kurt Karl, head of economic research at Swiss Re....
...As Kurt Vonnegut once said of the bombing of Dresden, the subject of his book Slaughterhouse-Five, it was a terrible event but he profited from it....
...“Prime brokers are seeing pressure on risk margins [collateral requirements],” says Tim Wannenmacher, head of the Asian prime services operation of Lehman Brothers....
...The lucky man is Ted Price, head of Lehman Brothers’ Indian operations and the investment bank’s former director of corporate security....
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