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Living cells show how to fix the financial system

...well, with funds flowing easily, but it can experience sharp liquidity crises - as it did following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings in 2008. For short-term cash, banks rely heavily on "repos" - overnight sales of stocks or other assets...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-07-11/living-cells-show-h
Guest Columns
The Truth About Uncertainty Is That It's (Mostly) Untrue

...rating. Since then, the index has declined steadily and is now at the August 2008 level, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings.Business thrives on certainty, to be sure. Obama's rhetorical broadsides against business leaders aren't...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-05-29/truth-about-uncertaint
Columnists
Dow closes above 13,000, first time since crisis

...2008, almost four months before the fall of the Lehman Brothers investment bank triggered the worst of the financial...more than a month. Ten months later came the fall of Lehman Brothers and the financial meltdown. The Dow hit bottom on...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-02-28/dow-closes-above-13000-first-tim
Business
Buffet message is 'do as I say, not as I do'

...calls that required short-term timing of the market. This one was especially risky, coming only a month after Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy and while the global economy was in a frightening tailspin.To his credit, Buffett was...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-03-22/buffet-message-do-i-sa
Columnists
FCC allows Bell Atlantic to offer long distance

...then another 1 1/2 to 2 dozen in 2001, and more will peter in after that,'' said Blake Bath, an analyst with Lehman Brothers. Bell Atlantic said it hopes to snag 25 percent of the residential and business customers in the New York long-distance...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122399/new_1223990018.shtml
News
Federal surplus could reach $210 billion

...revenue generating machine for the U.S. economy is running at full throttle,'' said economist Ethan Harris of Lehman Brothers in New York, who along with a number of other analysts said the surplus for April alone likely will be in the $150...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/042100/nne_0421000028.shtml
News
No sale of Conseco unit to Lehman, ratings agency says

ST. PAUL (AP) -- A tentative offer by Lehman Brothers to take control of Conseco Finance has apparently collapsed. According to a report issued late Thursday by New Jersey insurance...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/061700/bus_0617000074.shtml
Business
Economy issues are on the back burner as the presidential election approaches

...The economy likely will not be a defining issue in this race,'' said Kim N. Wallace, political analyst at Lehman Brothers Inc. in Washington. Why? Despite scattered signs of a slowdown, ''the overarching message we see is that the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070800/bus_0708000057.shtml
Business
Doubts surface about Amazon

...recent interview. The view that Amazon is not getting it right the first time received a major boost last week, when Lehman Brothers bond analyst Ravi Suria issued a devastating report. Amazon, he said, has a ''weak balance sheet, poor working...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070800/tec_0708000008.shtml
Tech
Wrigley trying to unstick flat U.S. gum sales

...the times. "In this day and age you've got to bring excitement to the consumer," said analyst Andrew Lazar of Lehman Brothers. As the world's No. 1 chewing gum manufacturer, "it's up to them to innovate and drive growth in the category...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/090900/bus_0909000016.shtml
Business

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