Tue
Sep 9 2008
06:24 pm
By: bizgrrl
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. "stock tumbled $6.36, or 45 percent, to $7.79 — the lowest level Lehman's stock has hit since the financial meltdown of 1998..."
The fourth largest securities firm has suffered $8.2 billion in write-downs and credit losses since last year.
Within the last year their stock has been as high as $67. Ow! Ow! Ow! How much will we, the taxpayers, fork out to help this poor company?
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We're already holding the bag for Bear Stearns.
When all is said and done, this is going to make the S&L bailout look like pat-a-cake.
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Taxpayer bailouts of corrupted corporations is absolutely no problem so long as the CEOs keep getting multi-million dollar termination agreements. Oh, and no jail time. Too rich for jail. IOKIYAR.
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