On September 14, the face of Wall Street was permanently altered, felled by the growing US financial crisis. Lehman Brothers filed Chapter 11 and some assets might be sold; Merrill Lynch was gobbled up by Bank of America; and American International Group (AIG) is just hanging on.
Meanwhile, the pundits – and public – are speculating about who will be next as the stock market crashed more than 500 points on September 15, the day after the Lehman-BoA-Merrill-AIG saga broke. It was ...