Special Report

Lehman's Lessons

Missing Lehman Lesson of Global Shakeout Means Too Big Banks Prone to Fail The warning was ominous: “Massive global wealth destruction.”

Sleep-At-Night-Money Lost in Lehman Lesson Missed With Bent's $63 Billion Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. left his suite at Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last Sept. 15 after a sleepless night, feeling he’d done all he could to minimize the damage from that morning’s collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., aides said.

London Suicide Connects Lehman Lesson Missed by Hong Kong Hospital Orderly Yu Lia Chun, a retired hospital orderly in Hong Kong, never heard of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. before she got a call last September from her banker.

Lehman Monday Morning Reveals Lesson Lost With Obama as Regulator-in-Chief Less than 24 hours after his swearing-in ceremony, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner surprised Camden R. Fine with an invitation to a one-on-one meeting about the financial crisis.

How Lehman's Fall Froze the Commercial-Paper Market: Interactive Timeline The collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. a year ago froze the market for commercial paper, the short-term loans companies use to finance everyday operations.