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Lehman quickly became a force in the subprime market. By 2003 Lehman made $18.2 billion in loans and ranked third in lending. By 2004, this number topped $40 billion. By 2006, Aurora and BNC were lending almost $50 billion per month. [2]:129. Lehman had morphed into a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment bank.
By early 2008 asset-backed and financial-sector commercial paper made up 56% of its portfolio. The September 15, 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers raised concern about Reserve Primary's holdings of Lehman-issued paper, which then made up 1.2% of its portfolio, as well as its other financial-sector paper. Among money market funds, Reserve ...
According to bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas, the seeds of Lehman's Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy were sown in 2006, aggressively fertilized throughout 2007 and 2008's first two quarters, and ...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers on Tuesday that the bankrupcty of Lehman Brothers serves as perhaps the best example of the need for ...
Dudley proposed a "Maiden Lane type vehicle" that he explained to Valukas would hold $60 billion of Lehman's illiquid assets, supported by $5 billion of Lehman equity and $55 billion in financing ...
Lehman had been in talks to be sold to either Bank of America or Barclays but neither bank wanted to acquire the entire company. [125] September 16, 2008: The Federal Reserve took over American International Group with $85 billion in debt and equity funding. The Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" as a result of its exposure to Lehman ...
On Monday, September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy. On Tuesday, September 16, The Reserve Primary Fund broke the buck when its shares fell to 97 cents after writing off debt issued by Lehman Brothers. [14]
Lehman + 5: The Fed wind-down begins now. The preceding graph shows that the monetary base has nearly quintupled since Lehman's bankruptcy, a result of the Fed's money-printing munificence (the ...