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When Lehman Brothers loan company went under, the entire world gasped. One of the world's biggest & most successful bankers, its downfall was the function that sparked the slip of the world current economic climate toward a Great Depression II. This is actually the gripping inside storyline of the dark character types who ruled Lehman, who refused to heed warnings that the company was going for an iceberg; the world-class, mid-level people who valiantly fought to get Lehman off its devastating course; the crash that didn't have to occur. A news-breaking reason that answers the question everyone still asks: "why achieved it happen?" Larry McDonald, a past vice-president at Lehman Brothers in charge of distressed debt trading and convertible securities, was right at the centre of the meltdown of the company and gives an intimate look at the madhouse that Lehman became. This booklet shows beyond a doubt that Richard Fuld, the long-time CEO of Lehman, and his top professionals, were totally away to meal, allowing Lehman's risk profile to reach gargantuan proportions. While the stock traders, like Larry McDonald, obviously predicted more than 2 yrs in advance that the market for packed subprime mortgages and credit default swaps would evaporate, the high-flying Lehman bosses pressed hard on the gas pedal before very end.