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By Root 390 0
Wall Street Bear Calls It Quits,"

Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2005.

Chapter 14 9/11

Page 142 When American Airlines Flight 11 www.dronefone.com/wtc/wtc.html.

Page 148 At Gregory's behest Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of

How Wall Street Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves (New York:

Viking Penguin, 2009).

Page 149 It was more expensive Lawrence G. McDonald, A Colossal Failure of Common

Sense (New York: Crown Business, 2009), 214.

Page 151 Fuld was named one

of www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765001.htm .

Page 153 By 2008, the firm had Suzy Jagger, "No Federal Bailout of Lehman Brothers:

The Free Ride Was Over for Financiers," Times of London, September 16, 2008.

Page 154 ( Becker left Lehman that year, Matthew Goldstein, "SEC's Holly Becker Case

Slowly Fades Away," TheStreet.com, November 12, 2003.

Chapter 15 No Ordinary Joe

Page 160 He had left Morgan Stanley James Moore, "Morgan's European Stars Head for

the Exit," Telegraph, UK, January 27, 2006.

Page 161 But Isaacs did not help himself James Quinn, "From a Runner to a Mover and

Shaker Starting Off as a Blue Button on the LSE, Jeremy Isaacs Now Holds One of the

Top Jobs with Wall Street's Largest Investment Banks," Telegraph, UK, November 20,

2006.

Page 163 the magazine quoted only one David Henry, "Cross-Dressing Securities,"

BusinessWeek, March 12, 2006.

Page 163 A June 2007 Institutional Investor Pierre Paulden, "Alpha Female,"

Institutional Investor, June 2007.

Page 163 Callan had the ideal blend Much of the information in this section was first

reported in two profiles of Callan published in spring 2008: Susanne Craig, "Lehman's

Straight Shooter," Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2008, and Sheelah Kolhakatar, "Wall

Street's Most Powerful Woman," Portfolio, March 17, 2008.

Page 164 ( In the Myers-Briggs typology A pseudonymously authored memoir written by

a former banker at the firm suggests the dearth of "feelers" at the firm might have been

due to Gregory's meddling with the Myers-Briggs test results. Joseph Tibman, The

Murder of Lehman Brothers (New York: Brick Tower Press, 2009).

Page 164 In 2006 Lehman's subprime Bonnie Sinock, "Lehman, Market Trying to Find

the Right Size," National Mortgage News, September 10, 2007, and Yalman Onaran,

"Lehman Brothers to Cut 1,300 Jobs in Mortgage Unit," Bloomberg, January 17, 2008.

Page 165 Lehman Brothers, however, The two most detailed chronicles of Mark Walsh's

extraordinary career at Lehman are Dana Rubinstein's "Mark Walsh, Lehman' s

Unluckiest Gambler," New York Observer, October 1, 2008, and Devin Leonard, "How

Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix," New York Times, May 2, 2009.

Page 167 In October 2008, the French utility giant Edvard Pettersson, "Lehman to Sell

Eagle Energy Unit to EDF for $230.5 Million," Bloomberg, October 1, 2008.

Page 169 We don't have to wait "Inflation Is ECB's Biggest Challenge, Says Trichet,"

Financial Times, January 25, 2008.

Page 169 Russo gave a speech to the G30 "Credit Crunch: Where Do We Stand?"

www.group30.org/pubs_1401.

Page 170 The timing was so atrocious Devin Leonard, "How Lehman Got Its Real Estate

Fix," New York Times, May 2, 2009.

Chapter 16 The Talking Head

Page 173 Meanwhile, Bear Stearns CEO Kate Kelly, "Bear CEO's Handling of Crisis

Raises Issues," Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2007.

Page 175 When the call was over, Lehman Conference Call: Lehman Brothers Holdings

Inc. (LEH) F1Q08 Earnings Call, March 18, 2008.

Page 176 On April 1, as Fuld dealt "Lehman's Fundraising,"

www.cnbc.com/15840232?video=99975259&play=1.

Page 177 That would not be the case Einhorn's pubic campaign against Lehman's

accounting practices is chronicled in detail by Hugo Lindgren in "The Confidence Man,"

New York, June 15, 2008. The text of Einhorn's speech at the Ira W. Sohn Investment

Research Conference is available on his web site ( www.foolingsomepeople.com).

Page 178 In the Saturday edition Susanne Craig, "Lehman's Straight

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