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Lehmans - One year on: Govt inaction sent markets to brink of collapse

Hysni Kaso

15 September 2009 •

On the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, fund management groups agree it was the "erroneous" decision to let the investment bank fail which almost crippled the global financial system.

Unlike the rescue of Bear Stearns, the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and subsequent assistance to AIG, Lehman filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15, last year after it could not o...

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