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Lehman Brothers

March 2024

  • Adrian Schiller in the Lehman Trilogy

    The Lehman Trilogy review – masterful performances animate a flawed project

    Directed by Sam Mendes, this Tony-winning corporate thriller whirls through 164 years of capitalism – yet still feels incomplete

September 2023

  • The South Sea Bubble - An Allegory. 18th century engraving by William Hogarth. The devil carves up the figure of Fortune and throws it to the crowd. In the centre of the scene, investors ride the financial merry-go-round. Honesty is strapped to the wheel at the bottom, being tortured by Self-Interest. Bottom right, Trade lies languishing on the ground

    Beware September: five cautionary tales from economic history

    From the South Sea Bubble to the undoing of Trussonomics, this month of the year keeps providing lessons

March 2023

  • Elizabeth Holmes<br>FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco. Just six years ago, Holmes seemed destined to fulfill her dream of becoming Silicon Valley's next superstar. Now she is about to head into a San Jose, Calif., courtroom to defend herself against criminal allegations depicting her as the devious mastermind of a fraud that duped wealthy investors, former U.S. government officials and patients whose lives were endangered by a blood-testing technology that never came close to fulfilling her bold promises. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

    WeWork mugs for $500: 10 of the strangest merch items from companies that crashed

    FTX fortune cookies and Theranos gift cards offer souvenirs from recent business disasters

December 2022

  • A worker carries a box out of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers offices at Canary Wharf, east London in September 2008.

    £1.1bn in fees, 3.1m hours, 14 years: the UK cost of winding up Lehman Brothers

    PwC, administrator of Lehman’s London arm since bank’s failure in 2008, secures three more years to finish process

August 2019

  • City of London seen with blocks of flats in front

    Forget a 2008 Lehman Bros-style crash – this is how a ‘normal’ recession could start

    Dan Davies
    Political uncertainty or trade restrictions could shock business confidence, says former Bank of England economist Dan Davies

March 2019

  • Former Lehman Brothers staff leave its New York HQ

    HMRC in line for £1bn windfall from Lehman Brothers collapse

    UK supreme court rules administrators winding up bank must pay tax on assets

October 2018

  • The floor of the New York stock exchange in September 2008.

    World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF

    Debt is above 2008 level and failure to reform banking system could trigger crisis

20 September 2018

  • Protester outside the Bank of England on 15 September 2018, the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers

    Those who caused the financial crisis still haven’t been held to account

    Letter: Susan Hawley of Corruption Watch and Rachel Teka Davies of Transparency International UK say banks will act with impunity until our arcane liability laws are changed

16 September 2018

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    An economic recovery based around high debt is really no recovery

    Larry Elliott
    Ten years after the Lehman collapse the necessary reforms to a flawed model have not taken place
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    The Great Crash changed politics more than it reformed finance

    Andrew Rawnsley
    The big winners of post-crisis politics have been the insurgent populists who have fed on and amplified the injustice felt by many voters
  • A man looks at his mobile phone in front of a huge poster in Beijing

    Business leader
    A decade after Lehman fell, the global economy is not better. It’s worse

    Investment is low, growth is slow and crisis in China would leave central banks with little firepower to stave off decline

14 September 2018

  • The aftermath of Lehman Brothers sliding into bankruptcy on 15 September 2008

    The Guardian view on the great financial crash: new thinking needed

  • Gordon Brown leaves Downing Street with his wife, Sarah, in 2010 after announcing his resignation as prime minister

    How Gordon Brown contributed to Tory austerity policy

  • A Lehman Brothers employee.

    Lehman sticky notes for $500, anyone? Bust bank memorabilia sells online

  • The New York Mercantile Exchange, 15 September 2008.

    The panel
    Ten years after the crash: have the lessons of Lehman been learned?

    Yanis Varoufakis, Ann Pettifor , Mark Littlewood, David Blanchflower, Olli Rehn, Nicky Morgan, and Micah White

12 September 2018

  • Royal Bank of Scotland branch on Princes Street, Edinburgh

    Ex-Treasury mandarin warns Labour over its RBS lending proposal

    Plan to mandate lending using government funds ‘won’t end well’, Nick Macpherson says
  • Traders and financial professionals work ahead of the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

    Lehman collapse: what has happened to the markets since?

    The effect on the FTSE 100 through to pensions, house prices and savers
  • Illustration by Sébastien Thibault

    Ten years on from the financial crash, we need to get ready for another one

    Robert Skidelsky
    The lessons of 2008 have not been fully learned: stop risky lending by banks, address fiscal policy and reduce inequality, says economist Robert Skidelsky

11 September 2018

  • Problems with subprime mortgages in the US started emerging in 2007, eventually leading to the biggest global financial crisis since the 1930s.

    Lehman Brothers went bust 10 years ago – can it happen again?

  • The City of London's Square Mile

    The City from the street, a decade after the crash – in pictures

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