Bits Quote by Christine Lagarde

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.

— George Soros

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of…

— Warren Buffett

I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and…

— Sean Hannity

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in…

— David Malpass

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might…

— Steve Bannon

“The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured…

— Stanley Bing

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of…

— Lou Jiwei

If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those…

— Warren Buffett

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

— Ben Bernanke