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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

“Most Europeans like to think that American bankruptocracy is worse than its European cousin, thanks to the power of Wall Street and the infamous…

— Yanis Varoufakis

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

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as…

— Christine Lagarde

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

— George Soros

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented…

— Steve Bannon

When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.

— David Olusoga

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about…

— George Papandreou

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have…

— Timothy Noah

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

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France…

— Martin Schulz