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It was a very bad decision to remove the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s, which led to the spectacular failure of huge banks during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. To prevent another disaster, Dodd-Frank and this statute both need to be reestablished right away. What happened with these banks is only the beginning of what will happen if nothing is done to address the current situation.
In my opinion, some of the banks was attempting to restructure their bond portfolio, which involved selling their low-yielding bonds despite the potential loss, and compensating for it by buying higher-interest-rate bonds on the open market.
Despite the economy's resilience thus far, the banks scenario cautions that the effects of Federal Reserve rate hikes persist. During such periods, investors must remain alert to anticipate what comes next. It is not necessary to act on every prediction, so I recommend seeking the guidance of a financial advisor, which has been my go-to advice for some time now.
Certainly, there are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Marisa Michelle Litwinsky” for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive.She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
@@brianallison1913 yeah but the Rothschilds probably had to sell a few homes to afford those space lasers. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about then Google it.)
My dad worked for lehman brothers as a mining analyst from 2001 to the final collapse. Needless to say, it was completely insane seeing everything unfold through the eyes of my dad. Shit will go down in the history books.
In 2008, pre college, I had a job making $200-$250 a week. I was broke. I had a car payment and rent, etc...... I was still approved for a home loan. I told myself something isn't right, and I got the hell outta there
What an idiot not to see the amazing opportunity you had For max 7% interest , even if you sold your property five years later at sale value u only lost 7%
Yeah people love to blame it on the banks, but the banks were merely selling/trading garbage, they weren’t the ones buying it want… Regular people, too self absorbed to care that they couldn’t afford what they were getting into dug themselves into a hole and then were surprised when it left them with nothing… Yes the banks were greedy bastards, but if there’s anything I’ve learned from that financial crisis, it’s that we all played a part in it, none of us save for people like you and my parents who were smart enough to know their own worth were innocent… It’s our responsibility to know better, to not be so starry eyed and greedy, but we were, and we paid for it…
It seems like very few documentaries mention the fact that hundreds of billions in mortgage debt was in variable-rate loans, and those loans all increased their rates in 2007. Many borrowers were told not to worry because they could sell their homes at a profit the second the rate went up. What borrowers WEREN’T told is that a million homeowners would be selling at the same time, and for the same reason.
If someone told me that I could sell my house for a profit, it WOULD occur to me that if my house value went up, so did everyone else's in the area. That would be true even if no one else got the same loan I did. Nobody would have to "tell" me this: it's just common sense.
@@purselmer5931 - In 2005 there was an article in the New York Times that said millions of variable-rate mortgages were going raise their interest rates dramatically in 2007. I STRONGLY recommended that my friend sell his house ASAP, while the market was high. He didn’t, and he lost all his equity. Apparently, millions of people were either unaware of what was going to happen, or weren’t concerned. In the United States, half a million homes were repossessed in 2005. In 2008, that number was three million. Basically, almost no one saw the writing on the wall.
@@thetooginator153 Oh, I completely agree. There were those who refused to listen to their own common sense, probably lured by the idea that they could keep up w/the Jones's and felt pressured by that to buy much more than they could afford. I am well into my 50's and have bought and/or owned five homes. For my 3rd home, the bank pre-approved me for literally DOUBLE what I was comfortable paying. When my realtor kept pressuring me, I changed realtors and bought a house that I KNEW I could afford. When the 2nd realtor asked why I wanted to stay so low when I qualified for so much I said, "Because I like eating and putting gas in my car too!" That was the last time that that realtor and I discussed it and she said I was "smart." LOL
And that greed and low interest 20 years later pushed out any young adults from a possibility to own a home as a single person. In England the prices went up 5-10% year on year and I`m 29 and I have to become a manager to afford a house myself in England, where you only get a 2-3 bedroom tiny home for a mortgages shared between 2 person as they not giving people more than 4 times your yearly salary (+20% downpayment) and I only make 30k with a BA degree while houses starts at 150k. I hope the housing market collapses again so I can afford to buy an old house that needs refurbishment. Wish I was a boomer not millenial
@@davids8127 Hey hey, don't act like us older people didn't get affected by this (I am NOT old enough to be a boomer though). When the house prices went so high b/c everyone and their mother was affording a mortgage, that made the rest of us have to get smaller or fix-me-upper homes too. This b.s. affected EVERYONE.
Great documentary. In 2008 I owned an architect's office with 20 employees. We were specialized in designing and engineering large housing-projects in the Netherlands. In the weeks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, at least 6 large projects we were working on were cancelled. CEO of a large housing firm: "Financing new real-estate out of our reserves this moment is opportune." On top of this, also other projects by my collegae were cancelled an it resulted in the bankruptcy of my business. I'll never forget 9-14 but at least now I know what happened. 50% of Dutch architects ran out of business during what we call the construction-and-real-estate-crisis. luckily I'm one of the survivors who can still enjoy being an architect.
Thanks for the insight. How did you survive as an architect? Did you end up creating a new business or did you join one that was able to survive the crisis in the Netherlands?
@@JSRJohn After the bankruptcy I've tried to stay working on my one but because my investment (second morgtage on our house) was lost, and not only my CEO-salary was stopped but also the fee to pay for the extra interest on the second mortgage, we had to sell our house in 2015. The lone at that moment was greater then the selling price. In the Netherlands you not only lose your house but you stay in debt at you bank. (in our case about € 125,000,--) Luckily in the Netherlands there is a system called "Wet Schuldsanering Natuurlijke Personen" If a judge allows you to take part in this system, after a "sanitation-period" of three years your are square. During this period your salary and that of your spouse (or children living with you) is cut to around 60% of minimum wages. The surplus of money is reserved for the bank you ow the money to. My wife's salary was exactly the amount of monthly money we were allowed to keep. So, every penny I'v earned (during this period you have to work and earn as much as possible) was reserved for the bank. This enabled me to work as an architect as an employee at an architectural-and stuctural engineerings office for an affordable fee. I've learned to Model BIM models in that period. My network expanded and if there was nog enough work as an architect i could work as an engineer. (Financially you could say I've worked three years for free) In 2019 after the debt-sanitation, my former employers became my associates in our new architect's office. Dutch building-economy still suffers because of the effects of the construction-and-real-estate-crisis but yes, I've survived as an architect. Still we depend on my wife's salary "to pay the rent" but at least anything I earn, we can use to have some fun in our life. (Last year we've bought a 44 year old sailing yacht to replace the yacht we owned but had to sell when my firm went bankrupt. We are on our way up). In the Netherlands insolvable debts of bankruptcy comes with great shame. Because of bad timing (I've bought the firm for over € 1,4 M in 2006, just 2 1/2 year before Lehman fell and still had to pay of the lone when the orders were withdrawn) and bad luck, We didn't had any shame at all and were able to ask for help to anyone and everywhere and lots of friends, family and even strangers helped us. In 2009 about 15.000 men and women were employed as an architect or as a creative employee (impression-artists, design assistent's interior desinger's and so on) at an architect's practice. (not counted engineers or technical drawing staff) In 2018 there were 7.000 left an now it's about 8.200 people working in our branche in the Netherlands and I am still one of them. It's the nicest job in the world.
IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT FOR THE REAL CRISIS HAPPENED ACROSS YOUR OCEAN RIGHT INTO THE WALL STREET OF NEW YORK ❗️❗️❗️❗️ VARIABLE RATE LOANS IN THE BANKING MARKETS MAKING BILLIONS FOR VERY GREEDY BANKS .......WAS THE MAIN CAUSE ❗️❗️❗️
Your experience is so sad both for you, your colleagues, other businesses and your country. The arrogance and disregard for people such as yourself by the top executives at so many wall street firms is egregious and makes one question if humans are essentially good or evil.
Dude clears a couple billion, drives company into ground, loses everyone’s money, files bankruptcy, walks away. I sure hope he has enough money to survive. Bankruptcy laws need to change. These joker’s have no fear they’ll lose their money, but everyone else’s is under the dice.
People like fuld need to spend time in jail. Serious time. Like decades. Instead, regulation is stripped away and soon we will go full circle with another round of tax payer funded bail outs. This is shifting public money into the hands of a few individuals under the guise of saving the economy.
What gets me is he showed no remorse to the millions of peoples lives and businesses that he ruined due to his mismanagement of the company. Yeah he is filthy rich but what about the victims he basically stoled from..
Dick was a nasty primate whose hubris knew no bounds. Hearing how the man who ruined millions of peoples lives, refused to acknowledge underlings shows his true “lack of character”. I hope he has trouble sleeping at night but I doubt he does.
I used to work for Lehman but left two years before Lehman collapsed. I left because the managers were becoming very difficult to work with. I realized later that Dick Fuld was the one who was driving the insanity.
Worked for them upto there collapse, we designed and built there datacenters in asia, they went bust owing us millions, put us out of business, only to be told at bankruptcy Lehman UK (our employer) was bankrupt but solvent and wed be paid in full.
So did you return all the money you yooked while you "worked" there? Its an honest sincere question I mean after all you seem to be very disgusted with the outcome. so were you mad because of how things were run or mad and left because you guys knew years before that your system would kill the American economy by bankers greed and you didn't want to go down with that ship??
@@marc2638 We built trading floors and datacentres that handled more transactions than you would know what to do with. We quoted for work and was paid. Bank or not, you get paid for the job you've done
I'm sure it's not a great sign for company culture when your CEO has "The Gorilla" as his unofficial nickname. Yes. I also worked for Lehman. Left the spring before the collapse :)
@@Jonteponte71 All my staff call me a cunt mate, and i dont give a rats ass, i pay well, they fuck up there held accountable they do well they get a bonus. Theres nothing new in staff hating there boss
In his calm, level-headed wisdom, his compassion and his lethal intelligence, Mr. Miller did our profession proud. I had mentors like him when I was in law school, and they made me a better, more mindful and conscientious attorney.
@@davidvergolini9740 totally disagree. We need the “right” regulation & they should never bail these crooks out… they went wild knowing they could just cry to government about collapse and they’d be saved.
@@Showmetheevidence-wrong. The financial crisis shows us what can happen when there is no regulation. People get greedy and the middle and lower class suffer.
@@NathBentleyYT That's the problem. There wasn't any law against what they did. Indeed, there was a law making it illegal to charge them with a crime. BTW - I worked in the mortgaged backed securities of Lehman Brothers for 13+ years.
@@NathBentleyYT Wrecking the global economy with greedy negligence carries no direct punishment and that's the problem. Here in the US we privatize profits and socialize risk. Rinse and repeat over and over again like clueless lemmings.
I should have noted that the thing that hurt the banks were NOT mortgages themselves but the mortgaged backed securities that used those mortgages and more than that - the derivatives (in this case Credit Default Swaps) that were used to insure those MBS's. Since there were no regulations on derivatives, investment banks could do what they wanted with them and they learned they could make $$$$ buying and selling them like stocks. The biggest problem with the lack of regulations was their ability to have between 7-10 "insurance policies" on one MBS. If a MBS lost $10 million, the sellers of the CDSs had to pay out $100 million and that was the REAL cause of the problem.
@@PH-md8xp it was both Democrats and Republicans who passed bills forcing the banks to lower decades sold standards on lending. Remember Clinton’s campaign of every American should own a home? Your partisan BS is just that, complete BS
It still happens today, especially in the UK. Major banks and institutions overexposed with their investments in the property markets. That's why there are so many more people living on the streets and people unable to get on the property ladder, because of their greed and overexposure in real estate, these players stop builders and government from building more homes and especially low-cost, first time buyer housing, because it would dilute the stock, drop average property prices and ultimately, wipe billions off their portfolios. Just makes you sick how greed destroys society.
Lovejoy That's assbackwards. The problem was caused by building TOO MANY homes for which there were not enough qualified buyers. Then Chris Dodd and Barney Frank pressured the banks and Fannie and Freddy to start loaning mortgage money to unqualified buyers, in the belief that if the unqualified buyers defaulted, the houses could be re-sold at a profit and the defaulted mortgage paid off with the re-sale proceeds. Big mistake.
@@clarestucki5151 correct. The OP is wrong - UK banks have good capitalisation levels, mainly due to laws put in place post-Lehman. Climbing interest rates are also building their profits.
If they can make a profit, they will build. The issue in the UK is the wage gap between top and bottom which translates in house prices. 1/3 of UK housing is funded by the state. It is NOT an issue of being over invested or not investing enough as posted by the commentator which is a straight up contridiction. This was a financial crisis not a property crisis.
I lost my home here in the UK due to the sub prime mortgage scenario...... only reason I fell behind was due to a spinal condition leading to extended time off work. Then the insurance policy decided it wouldn't pay. Ultimately my particular case is probably part of a mountain of repossession documents still being processed. The broker was a conman who made 5k out of the deal. Said "don't worry about the application form, I'll complete it"..... sorry but I have zero sympathy with the bank. I have total sympathy with every single ordinary person equally affected like I was.
@@pattimaeda6097 oh how I wish it had been that easy! Problem is I was at the time a single working Step Dad, and it was nigh on impossible to save money. I don't know where you're based but here in the UK there's zero help for single Dads no matter what the circumstances are. I respect what you said; in hindsight I shouldn't have taken the commitment on but it was marketed in such a way that I was reassured I would have no problems. Without a doubt it was the insurance policy that was an absolute con. I consider myself as lucky. From what I can gather, hundreds of millions of people lost everything and are in a far worse position. For those, I have every sympathy.
@@martinherts1967 you don’t have to explain anything to patti or anyone. She probably couldn’t walk a mile in your shoes. I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with the insurance company about a work injury. NOT FUN! 3 years later I’m just now having surgeries. Trying to navigate insurance, kids, injury and everything is no walk in the park with or without a rainy day fund. I pray you’re back on track!
@@pattimaeda6097 as a homeowner who came close to the chopping block, I have to stress that rainy day funds don't really work in dire straits. Things started to fall appart very quickly and if I hadn't gotten help from family, friends and a good amount of luck I couldn't have kept my property. I met also other people in similar or worse conditions and we could all agree that the Illusion of being in control is far more dangerous than the presence or absence of emergency reserves.
That Fuld could say that he couldn't think of anything he could have done differently means that he's an idiot or that he thinks that the rest of us are. He should have been sentenced to 100, 000 hours of community service helping people of modest means to get mortgages, although subjecting mortgage seekers to his personality would have been a problem.
@@seliamila1005 Nah, an ankle bracelet and home arrest, with 10 hours out per day at homeless kitchens @ minimum wage, after confiscation of all his other financial resources. And if he breaks any of the rules, a cell with a monitored computer where he can earn his meals by doing free remote work for non-profits that serve the poor. 🙂
@@maxm2639 eh why he must have the privilege of breathing fresh air? There are people who committed suicide because of the 2008 crisis, Fuld should be in jail
@@seliamila1005 Thanks for the response. I think legal penalties should be about restitution and, when possible, rehabilitation. An eye for an eye, or suffering for suffering is useful mainly for satisfying our desire for revenge, or maybe decreasing vigilantism. I know that revenge is important to many people, including those in the Mideast. Or you could look at how revenge benefitted Northern Ireland. Or how well it works out in personal relationships.
Very interesting topic. I did projects in college about Financial fraud. It's insane what some of these guys get away with but even more frightening is that sometimes SEC and other overseers overlook the red flags.
I don’t know how Dick couldn’t answer “how did this happen?” How about greed? It was greed! They were over levered in highly speculative investments and didn’t account for risk whatsoever
but sorry , leveraging was the only way for them earn billions instead of million ... you should not be jealous .. become a bankster and a billionaire yourselve !!!! who caress of normal people - noboday who is rich ...
the whole USA bankingsystem is a fraud. and they have control to ALL banks in the world except N-korea. ALL the bankingsystem is made by them, swift system, petro$, US $ printing machine, BIS, ECB, IMF, FED, worldbank, bank of asia, all in control USA
At 11:43 we have Head of PR for Lehman Brothers Andrew Gowers (or Tubby Gowers as Private Eye called him). His next job would be head of Corporate Communications at BP during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The very opposite of the Midas touch.
@Chris Summers: This wasn't incompetence. These guys weren't stupid, they left FABULOUSLY RICH. The found a loophole and blew it open, knowing full well the damage, when it crashed. THEY BLEW THIS BUBBLE... knowing all bubbles burst.
“What should I have done?” Not over leveraged other people’s money to make personal profits. All these banks would have been allowed to fail; none should have been bailed out. And the leadership should have been tried for criminal negligence and recklessness in causing this and frankly should be sent to prison for outright theft.
Remember the Contractor who was owed 1million dollars for work he had done. Compare him to the trader, Larry McDonald who was involved with the venture, he jumped ship and left with millions in compensation.
At that time I used to work near Liverpool Street and used to pass their offices daily. I remember the reverberations of that crash and it's consequences.
Several thoughts 1. This was a very well made video. Great video clips and interviews of the actual players to support the story. 2. This Dick Fuld appears to be a CEO who was reckless, treated people poorly and disliked by everybody. How did he become CEO? Definitely not the admired and loved CEO that Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan is. 3. Fannie Mae and the credit rating companies are also greatly responsible for the financial crash. Giving loans to everyone and then marking these loans as AAA has adverse consequences. 4. Bravo to Hank Paulson and Treasury for refusing to bailout bad actors like Lehman, which has placed some fear in Wall Street. 5. The fact that Fuld was able to earn $500 million during his tenure is outrageous and shows no oversight by the board of directors, which as Warren Buffett correctly calls them as an "good old boys club." 6. It is embarrassing and shocking that the US Government has not put in jail or at least brought criminal charges against Fuld, Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide), Hank Greenberg (AIG) and Raymond McDaniel (Moodys)
its amazing to me that u think there is a big difference between Fuld and Paulson, these people are all intertwined and were all making hundreds of millions of dollars from the system that was doomed to fail long term but short term making an astronomic profit, Paulson pushed the government to pass the law on higher leverage for banks btw. There is nothing that Lehman did that all of the other investment banks didn't. They all knew what was happening, people who could do anything to stop this got paid to do nothing.
@@Dutchy-1168 dude, that makes no sense. I don’t like Dick Fuld but he did not do anything illegal. His bank made stupid investments but they were not illegal. Bernie madoff literally took peoples money and did not invest it like he said. That was illegal.
The question is how much did Fuld lose? The captain should go down with the ship. People are being too civil. There needs to be consequences. They need to put the fear of their life in to these people that have the power to ruin other people's lives for their own profit. They have no real fear. There needs to be power in the masses to show what happens to people when they do these things.
Absolutely. They profit individually whatever happens hence their arrogance in the face of their stupidity. This will only stop when executives are made financially liable.
@@alfredthegreat9543 WHAT makes you think the bank heads were stupid??? THEY MADE BILLIONS..ignorance is just their EXCUSE.Compared to them, Madoff was an amateur...and HE'S in prison. Deregulation is a license to steal...THEY walked away rich...
Great story about what can actually go wrong when greed and egos get in the way of thoughtfulness and humanity 💔 As an ex Lucent employee, outside the USA, it would be interesting to hear what actually happened in New Jersey 🤷♂️
Recession is most likely the result of an external factor. For the first time in decades, the United States is losing its clout as a federal reserve currency. They don't have any more economies to use to control inflation, and less money is being spent on stock and oil trading than in the past. They all lend support to the idea that a new multilateral world order is in the works.
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On the other hand, investors/wall street doesn't want Billy butter cup as CEO. They demand a Godzilla corporate psychopath to increase the bottom line at any and all cost.
It ruined the economy for the next 10 years and we are still recovering from it, just because the government wouldn't fund 30 billion, the entire world lost trillions.
100% agree. COVID was another example of why bailing anyone out for poor planning wreaks havoc on all of us. Stimulus checks, bailouts- none of it should have happened.
The bankruptcy lawyer who could not believe they would let Lehman go bankrupt is also the guy who blames the entire thing on people losing the fear and that risk was not factor. Well if that is not the pot calling the kettle black.
Lehman Brothers had the name and the ability in bringing massive amount money from the “market” to fund the majority of home loans in the U.S from 1998 to 2008 (Very little or nothing was paying back to those foreign investors (foreign banks). The bottom line is that The U.S did not lose anything because no house or home walks over to Europe or Asia. Thankyou Lehman Brothers & WAMU for sacrificed yourself for the good of the country.
Investors can’t predict the future, bearish periods automatically give way for a new set of stocks to buy and watch while setting the stage for a new profitable uptrend. I have come across articles of people that grossed profits up to $250k during this crash, what are the best stocks to put on a watch list or buy at the moment?
It's precisely at times like these that investors need to be on guard against the next certainty. You don't have to act on every forecast, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor that can provide you with entry and exit points on the shares/ETF you focus on.
The uncertainties accompanying this present market is more reasons I have my daily investment decisions guided by a CFP seeing that their entire skillset is built around going long and short at the same time, both employing profit-oriented strategy, coupled with the exclusive analysis, it's quite impossible not to outperform. Netted over $550k in ROI since then.
No doubt, the stock market is definitely the most awkward teenager with the wildest mood swings! I began with a pundit by name "LISA ELLEN SHAW". Her approach is transparent allowing total ownership and control over my position and fees are very reasonable in comparison with my ROI.
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..Nobody can become financially successful overnight. They put in background work but we tend to see the finished part. Fear is a dangerous component, hindering us from taking bold steps we need in other to reach our goals. you have to contend with inflation, recession, decisions from the Feds and all. I was able to increase my portfolio by $289k in months. You have to seek for help in the right places
All big corps are just a cohort of centralised system working together, and any damage to one can have a dangerous ripple effect on every other one. I learned a long time ago to not trust corporations. Most of my money is in the stock market and my businesses. I keep only what I need to spend in my checking account.
@Dave Delva Impressive! I've actually been looking into advisors lately, the news I've been seeing in the market hasn't been so encouraging, who's the professional coaching you?
Essentially, Repo 105 is an aggressive and deceitful accounting off-balance sheet device which was used to temporarily remove securities and troubled liabilities from Lehman's balance sheet while reporting its quarterly financial results to the public. These transactions were recorded as sales rather than as loans.
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has torn into global markets, with investors ripping up their forecasts for further rises in interest rates and dumping bank stocks around the world. I'm at a crossroads deciding if to liquidate my dipping 200k stocck portfolio, what’s the best way to take advantage of this bear market?
The SVB situation is a reminder that Fed hikes are having an effect, even if the economy has held up so far,” It’s precisely at times like these that investors need to be on guard against the next certainty. You don’t have to act on every forecast, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor.
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At the end Fuld says he has no idea what happened. Dude...that's the whole point! No one at Lehman knew what was happening. Of course it's going off the rails, because no one was steering the enterprise. One guy totally hit the nail on the head when he said you don't finance long term obligations with short term obligations. No one does that!! I learned that the first day in b-school!! I felt sorry for the lady who lost her entire pension after committing 20 years of her life to the cause. You would think Lehman would have learned from Bear Stearn's mistakes, just six months earlier. Nope.
@Ryan shuell : OF COURSE Fuld knew what was happening. He, and his cronies were making MILLIONS yearly. Deregulation merely removed the risk TO THEM, LEGALLY. And now they're pretending to be idiot 8yr olds...AND YOU'RE BUYING THAT TOO...
BULLSHIT. I worked at Lehman Brothers and I KNEW their investments in derivatives was bringing the company down. But I was just a computer programmer and had ZERO say so in what Lehman was doing!
"Overall, Fuld received nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007. In 2007, he was paid a total of $22,030,534, which included a base salary of $750,000, a cash bonus of $4,250,000, and stock grants of $16,877,365."
Putting well earned money into the stock market can be over emphasize for first time investors unlike a bank where interest is sure thing. Well basically times are uncertain, the stock market is out of control and banks are gradually failing. I’m planning on a ballpark figure of £5m for retirement and I have about £900k loaded up for this, could they be any opportunities for a boomer like me?
As a business owner in both the service industry and eBay reseller of all product categories, I can tell you we’re in a deep recession and everyone is running out of money, sincerely your best opportunity is seeking a financial advisor unless you’re canny yourself.
That’s why I make it a point to speak with a financial advisor before choosing any investments. I’ve been using one since the pandemic, using profits oriented tactics and minimizing risks as a buffer against inevitable downtrends. In addition they have access to insider knowledge and analysis, making failure virtually impossible for them. I’ve made about $3million working with John Desmond Heppolette, my advisor for over three years now.
John Desmond Heppolette, really seem to know this stuff. I found his online-page when made a google search of his full names, read through his resume, educational background, qualifications and it was really impressive. I left him a note and booked a call session with him..
It’s wild that a banker feels the government should have stepped in so save Lehman Brothers because of the amount money that was lost afterwards because of Lehman brothers collapse. Money is everything to them.
What!? What about capitalism? I don't think real true capitalist should ask the wicked government for money. Let the market regulate itself. And whatever else people say.
The level of confidence Lehman's people had that somebody would bail them out, no matter what, provides profound insight into how the situation arose in the first place. And then they had the unmitigated gall to talk to the fed about "consequences" if they didn't receive the taxpayer funds that they felt their own recklessness entitled them to.
Let the bankers down. But don't let the bank go down and transfer it instead into state property. Three years later you can sell it back to the market with profits. The governments have to be aware again of their (legislative) power and use it against the casino-banking-system.
Of course it's going to happen again! I'm still trying to figure out how in the world a bank gets to the point where the government bales them out along with the car manufacturers?! Then amazingly bank shut down or open under another name along with the car manufacturers either selling to the Japanese or the Chinese, but haven't heard about nobody paying the money back! Now I wish someone would explain to me how that's done, short of walking off with a windfall!!!!!😡
@@vanessawilliams4432 Good question. Perhaps it's because this money is created inside the banking system. It seems sort of like if we could print our own money and buy stuff with it and if we make a profit, we get to keep the profit. But if it goe bust, we can just print up some more money and start over. But like George Carlin said, "it's a really big club but you ain't in it".
it was all planned. thats why. it gonne happen again now. Look at the rich, they all are selling there stockshare's..... look at Pelosi.........5.000.000.000$ sold last weeks.
This was immoral and straight stupid…but not theft. They didn’t go to jail because no law was broken. What these bank ceos deserved was to get fired and not go back into the financial industry. With regulations today and the lack of subprime mortgages, chances of this happening again are low. The recession we are currently in is due to different reasons.
The loss of value, liquidity, the shockwaves throughout the financial institutions all over the world. They mentioned everything but the loss of life. Every crash creates also death, but none of them mentioned it because that is how much they care, zero. And of course no one was arrested, right? This one i am not sure
very interesting documentary. Although not mentioned here, the 1930s era Glass -Stegall act was repealed in 1999. The glass-steagall act prohibited banks from doing both investment and commercial banking.
I had a son 5 days after this happened, I’m not a financial guy by no means. But I lost everything, my mortgage, car you name it. Luckily I was still fairly young. I used this time as a learning experience. I see the signs😮
8:12 Leman Brothers “using borrowed money to invest in the stock market” - This is what lead to the stock market crash of 1929. “Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.” The writer and philosopher George Santayana is quoted , “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
@@8fconsulting147 how about a regulator who cares about the ordinary bank customer who just wants to get loans when needed and have someplace RISK free to keep their hard earned savings? Poulsun was asleep at the wheel in 2008 or he's completly corupt.
And I worked there at Lehman in 1979 at 55 Water Street.. A class act. The best. They treated you with respect. What happened to Lehman in 2008 was a market bubble only the FED could cure.
He walked away with Millions and yet......the workers got nothing. Even though they had worked there for many many years. He is most likely sipping wine on a deck chair at his pool, and admiring his huge mansion at the same time.
Top level bankers always get away with it. The workers would of no doubt faced issues having the Lehmann Brothers name on thier CV when looking for thier next role. If there were any left
Simple, the banks lent to people for mortgages that were very inflated. Knowing, that these people, when the rates went up, could not pay. But the banks were willing to do that, for current profits. They took the money and ran. It was built on US household real estate imagined wealth.
if it were a normal economic cycle, the boom & rally should've been done in 2005-2006, yet it kept going more than a year. that's why amount of pain was elevated too huge into the aftermath. it seems people still can't figure out why it lasted one extra year. if anyone comes up with an idea of what caused it to last, (s)he might deserve the nobel.
I love how the government pushed for banks to give loans to everyone, even if they couldn't afford it. Then the banks realized they could increase profits by the gazillion by following that (And the risks too, they were fully aware of that) Then both had their heads so far up their bums than when the market did a deadspin and grab the US economy (Then the EU and so like dominoes) with it did the "surprised pikachu face meme"
@charlesmartell4484 Funny thing... I think someone during the Great Depression said pretty much the same thing "When I saw that even the plumber was into the same stocks as I... I knew it was time to get out" History doesn't repeat itself... but it often rhymes
You need to learn the REAL cause of the crash and it wasn't the banks giving loans!!! Turn off Fox Fake F'ing "NEWS" !!!!!! To someone like myself who actually worked in the industry, you sound like a silly 5 year old!!!!
@@bjbell52 I have never in my life watched Fox News for anything more than meme compilations. Well, because you worked in the industry I will gladly listen/read to your points... I am not being sarcastic or anything; I will read it
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where were the internal controls at these firms???
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It was a very bad decision to remove the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s, which led to the spectacular failure of huge banks during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. To prevent another disaster, Dodd-Frank and this statute both need to be reestablished right away. What happened with these banks is only the beginning of what will happen if nothing is done to address the current situation.
In my opinion, some of the banks was attempting to restructure their bond portfolio, which involved selling their low-yielding bonds despite the potential loss, and compensating for it by buying higher-interest-rate bonds on the open market.
Despite the economy's resilience thus far, the banks scenario cautions that the effects of Federal Reserve rate hikes persist. During such periods, investors must remain alert to anticipate what comes next. It is not necessary to act on every prediction, so I recommend seeking the guidance of a financial advisor, which has been my go-to advice for some time now.
I'm intrigued by your experience. Could you possibly recommend a trustworthy advisor you've consulted with?
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And all the bankers lived happily ever after…
A Google search of some images of the Rothschild estates the family has owned throughout the centuries will attest to that.
@@brianallison1913 yeah but the Rothschilds probably had to sell a few homes to afford those space lasers. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about then Google it.)
Until svb happened.
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Until the next completely preventable crisis
My dad worked for lehman brothers as a mining analyst from 2001 to the final collapse. Needless to say, it was completely insane seeing everything unfold through the eyes of my dad. Shit will go down in the history books.
R u comfortable sharing with us what happened afterwards to your father?
a short story perhaps?
Fuld should be behind bars for 20 years
Did he get a huge bonus as they laid him off like the top executives?
In 2008, pre college, I had a job making $200-$250 a week. I was broke. I had a car payment and rent, etc...... I was still approved for a home loan. I told myself something isn't right, and I got the hell outta there
GREAT 👍 MOVE
What an idiot not to see the amazing opportunity you had
For max 7% interest , even if you sold your property five years later at sale value u only lost 7%
You "WOKE" up. Give yourself a pat on the back because you realized you would just be throwing your money in the trash.....
got the hell out of where? the country?
Yeah people love to blame it on the banks, but the banks were merely selling/trading garbage, they weren’t the ones buying it want… Regular people, too self absorbed to care that they couldn’t afford what they were getting into dug themselves into a hole and then were surprised when it left them with nothing… Yes the banks were greedy bastards, but if there’s anything I’ve learned from that financial crisis, it’s that we all played a part in it, none of us save for people like you and my parents who were smart enough to know their own worth were innocent… It’s our responsibility to know better, to not be so starry eyed and greedy, but we were, and we paid for it…
Amazing after all these years how interesting this video still is.
It seems like very few documentaries mention the fact that hundreds of billions in mortgage debt was in variable-rate loans, and those loans all increased their rates in 2007. Many borrowers were told not to worry because they could sell their homes at a profit the second the rate went up. What borrowers WEREN’T told is that a million homeowners would be selling at the same time, and for the same reason.
If someone told me that I could sell my house for a profit, it WOULD occur to me that if my house value went up, so did everyone else's in the area. That would be true even if no one else got the same loan I did. Nobody would have to "tell" me this: it's just common sense.
@@purselmer5931 - In 2005 there was an article in the New York Times that said millions of variable-rate mortgages were going raise their interest rates dramatically in 2007. I STRONGLY recommended that my friend sell his house ASAP, while the market was high. He didn’t, and he lost all his equity. Apparently, millions of people were either unaware of what was going to happen, or weren’t concerned.
In the United States, half a million homes were repossessed in 2005. In 2008, that number was three million. Basically, almost no one saw the writing on the wall.
@@thetooginator153 Oh, I completely agree. There were those who refused to listen to their own common sense, probably lured by the idea that they could keep up w/the Jones's and felt pressured by that to buy much more than they could afford. I am well into my 50's and have bought and/or owned five homes. For my 3rd home, the bank pre-approved me for literally DOUBLE what I was comfortable paying. When my realtor kept pressuring me, I changed realtors and bought a house that I KNEW I could afford. When the 2nd realtor asked why I wanted to stay so low when I qualified for so much I said, "Because I like eating and putting gas in my car too!" That was the last time that that realtor and I discussed it and she said I was "smart." LOL
And that greed and low interest 20 years later pushed out any young adults from a possibility to own a home as a single person. In England the prices went up 5-10% year on year and I`m 29 and I have to become a manager to afford a house myself in England, where you only get a 2-3 bedroom tiny home for a mortgages shared between 2 person as they not giving people more than 4 times your yearly salary (+20% downpayment) and I only make 30k with a BA degree while houses starts at 150k. I hope the housing market collapses again so I can afford to buy an old house that needs refurbishment. Wish I was a boomer not millenial
@@davids8127 Hey hey, don't act like us older people didn't get affected by this (I am NOT old enough to be a boomer though). When the house prices went so high b/c everyone and their mother was affording a mortgage, that made the rest of us have to get smaller or fix-me-upper homes too. This b.s. affected EVERYONE.
Great documentary. In 2008 I owned an architect's office with 20 employees. We were specialized in designing and engineering large housing-projects in the Netherlands. In the weeks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, at least 6 large projects we were working on were cancelled. CEO of a large housing firm: "Financing new real-estate out of our reserves this moment is opportune." On top of this, also other projects by my collegae were cancelled an it resulted in the bankruptcy of my business. I'll never forget 9-14 but at least now I know what happened. 50% of Dutch architects ran out of business during what we call the construction-and-real-estate-crisis. luckily I'm one of the survivors who can still enjoy being an architect.
Thanks for the insight. How did you survive as an architect? Did you end up creating a new business or did you join one that was able to survive the crisis in the Netherlands?
@@JSRJohn After the bankruptcy I've tried to stay working on my one but because my investment (second morgtage on our house) was lost, and not only my CEO-salary was stopped but also the fee to pay for the extra interest on the second mortgage, we had to sell our house in 2015. The lone at that moment was greater then the selling price. In the Netherlands you not only lose your house but you stay in debt at you bank. (in our case about € 125,000,--) Luckily in the Netherlands there is a system called "Wet Schuldsanering Natuurlijke Personen" If a judge allows you to take part in this system, after a "sanitation-period" of three years your are square. During this period your salary and that of your spouse (or children living with you) is cut to around 60% of minimum wages. The surplus of money is reserved for the bank you ow the money to. My wife's salary was exactly the amount of monthly money we were allowed to keep. So, every penny I'v earned (during this period you have to work and earn as much as possible) was reserved for the bank. This enabled me to work as an architect as an employee at an architectural-and stuctural engineerings office for an affordable fee. I've learned to Model BIM models in that period. My network expanded and if there was nog enough work as an architect i could work as an engineer. (Financially you could say I've worked three years for free) In 2019 after the debt-sanitation, my former employers became my associates in our new architect's office. Dutch building-economy still suffers because of the effects of the construction-and-real-estate-crisis but yes, I've survived as an architect. Still we depend on my wife's salary "to pay the rent" but at least anything I earn, we can use to have some fun in our life. (Last year we've bought a 44 year old sailing yacht to replace the yacht we owned but had to sell when my firm went bankrupt. We are on our way up). In the Netherlands insolvable debts of bankruptcy comes with great shame. Because of bad timing (I've bought the firm for over € 1,4 M in 2006, just 2 1/2 year before Lehman fell and still had to pay of the lone when the orders were withdrawn) and bad luck, We didn't had any shame at all and were able to ask for help to anyone and everywhere and lots of friends, family and even strangers helped us. In 2009 about 15.000 men and women were employed as an architect or as a creative employee (impression-artists, design assistent's interior desinger's and so on) at an architect's practice. (not counted engineers or technical drawing staff) In 2018 there were 7.000 left an now it's about 8.200 people working in our branche in the Netherlands and I am still one of them. It's the nicest job in the world.
IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT FOR THE REAL CRISIS HAPPENED ACROSS YOUR OCEAN RIGHT INTO THE WALL STREET OF NEW YORK ❗️❗️❗️❗️
VARIABLE RATE LOANS IN THE BANKING MARKETS MAKING BILLIONS FOR VERY GREEDY BANKS .......WAS THE MAIN CAUSE ❗️❗️❗️
Nice since you can’t spell😂
Your experience is so sad both for you, your colleagues, other businesses and your country. The arrogance and disregard for people such as yourself by the top executives at so many wall street firms is egregious and makes one question if humans are essentially good or evil.
Dude clears a couple billion, drives company into ground, loses everyone’s money, files bankruptcy, walks away. I sure hope he has enough money to survive. Bankruptcy laws need to change. These joker’s have no fear they’ll lose their money, but everyone else’s is under the dice.
People like fuld need to spend time in jail. Serious time. Like decades. Instead, regulation is stripped away and soon we will go full circle with another round of tax payer funded bail outs. This is shifting public money into the hands of a few individuals under the guise of saving the economy.
He makes in 1 year more than most in a lifetime.
What gets me is he showed no remorse to the millions of peoples lives and businesses that he ruined due to his mismanagement of the company. Yeah he is filthy rich but what about the victims he basically stoled from..
Dick was a nasty primate whose hubris knew no bounds. Hearing how the man who ruined millions of peoples lives, refused to acknowledge underlings shows his true “lack of character”. I hope he has trouble sleeping at night but I doubt he does.
Well said
What fentastic documentary. Very rare to see this type of documentaries on Financial matters. Hats of to your team.
Excellent documentary. This is the most clear and cogent explanation I've seen of the Lehman Brothers collapse
I used to work for Lehman but left two years before Lehman collapsed. I left because the managers were becoming very difficult to work with. I realized later that Dick Fuld was the one who was driving the insanity.
Worked for them upto there collapse, we designed and built there datacenters in asia, they went bust owing us millions, put us out of business, only to be told at bankruptcy Lehman UK (our employer) was bankrupt but solvent and wed be paid in full.
So did you return all the money you yooked while you "worked" there? Its an honest sincere question I mean after all you seem to be very disgusted with the outcome. so were you mad because of how things were run or mad and left because you guys knew years before that your system would kill the American economy by bankers greed and you didn't want to go down with that ship??
@@marc2638 We built trading floors and datacentres that handled more transactions than you would know what to do with. We quoted for work and was paid. Bank or not, you get paid for the job you've done
I'm sure it's not a great sign for company culture when your CEO has "The Gorilla" as his unofficial nickname.
Yes. I also worked for Lehman. Left the spring before the collapse :)
@@Jonteponte71 All my staff call me a cunt mate, and i dont give a rats ass, i pay well, they fuck up there held accountable they do well they get a bonus. Theres nothing new in staff hating there boss
Bankruptcy??? Odd phrase for Bank Robbery.
Well said 👏 👌 👍
Well said Sir
They should have never been bailed out sets a bad example for company’s that big and so called important
Well said, depravity is their code
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This is part one of probably the best documentary series about the subprime mortgage crisis and Lehmans Brothers bankrupcy.
Matt Taibbi summed it up well. “Think of this crisis not as an economic issue but a crime story”
I think it was a wall street guy who said this to Matt.
The less regulation, the more greed is involved.
100%. That was such an insightful & accurate comment!
@@davidvergolini9740 totally disagree. We need the “right” regulation & they should never bail these crooks out… they went wild knowing they could just cry to government about collapse and they’d be saved.
@@Showmetheevidence-wrong. The financial crisis shows us what can happen when there is no regulation. People get greedy and the middle and lower class suffer.
Amazing that no one went to prison over this crime.
What did they do illegally
@@NathBentleyYT That's the problem. There wasn't any law against what they did. Indeed, there was a law making it illegal to charge them with a crime. BTW - I worked in the mortgaged backed securities of Lehman Brothers for 13+ years.
@@NathBentleyYT Wrecking the global economy with greedy negligence carries no direct punishment and that's the problem. Here in the US we privatize profits and socialize risk. Rinse and repeat over and over again like clueless lemmings.
One person did, call him Faul Guy.
I should have noted that the thing that hurt the banks were NOT mortgages themselves but the mortgaged backed securities that used those mortgages and more than that - the derivatives (in this case Credit Default Swaps) that were used to insure those MBS's. Since there were no regulations on derivatives, investment banks could do what they wanted with them and they learned they could make $$$$ buying and selling them like stocks. The biggest problem with the lack of regulations was their ability to have between 7-10 "insurance policies" on one MBS. If a MBS lost $10 million, the sellers of the CDSs had to pay out $100 million and that was the REAL cause of the problem.
Even to this day the world has not fully recovered from this crisis
It sure hasn't.
It never will, there is a conveyor belt of entitled vips, ie. parasites that will continue to find a way of feeding off the big money teat.
New one is out, but yet world still in the past one 😮😂😂😂 isn’t that amazing speed with these financial genius’s 😂
And it's not going to.
Very emotional and heartbreaking 💔💔 thankbyou for putting together this wonderful explanation and video
As a finance student for life, this is good documentation of a very frenetic and financially perilous time.
And here we are today rolling back all of those regulations that are supposed to prevent this from happening again
Exactly. Foolish republicans.
Great, isn't it?
@@PH-md8xp you mean stupid democrats? Sleepy joe screwed us
@@PH-md8xp it was both Democrats and Republicans who passed bills forcing the banks to lower decades sold standards on lending. Remember Clinton’s campaign of every American should own a home? Your partisan BS is just that, complete BS
Creating endless wars of opportunity and selling weapons of mass death, is much more stable than trying to sell toxic prime mortgages.
It still happens today, especially in the UK. Major banks and institutions overexposed with their investments in the property markets. That's why there are so many more people living on the streets and people unable to get on the property ladder, because of their greed and overexposure in real estate, these players stop builders and government from building more homes and especially low-cost, first time buyer housing, because it would dilute the stock, drop average property prices and ultimately, wipe billions off their portfolios. Just makes you sick how greed destroys society.
AS Banks write down loans they can equally grow exponentially, where as the general public would spend half if not all of thier lives to recover.
Exactly on point.
Greedy white collar ass holes.
Lovejoy That's assbackwards. The problem was caused by building TOO MANY homes for which there were not enough qualified buyers. Then Chris Dodd and Barney Frank pressured the banks and Fannie and Freddy to start loaning mortgage money to unqualified buyers, in the belief that if the unqualified buyers defaulted, the houses could be re-sold at a profit and the defaulted mortgage paid off with the re-sale proceeds. Big mistake.
@@clarestucki5151 correct. The OP is wrong - UK banks have good capitalisation levels, mainly due to laws put in place post-Lehman. Climbing interest rates are also building their profits.
If they can make a profit, they will build. The issue in the UK is the wage gap between top and bottom which translates in house prices. 1/3 of UK housing is funded by the state. It is NOT an issue of being over invested or not investing enough as posted by the commentator which is a straight up contridiction. This was a financial crisis not a property crisis.
I lost my home here in the UK due to the sub prime mortgage scenario...... only reason I fell behind was due to a spinal condition leading to extended time off work. Then the insurance policy decided it wouldn't pay. Ultimately my particular case is probably part of a mountain of repossession documents still being processed. The broker was a conman who made 5k out of the deal. Said "don't worry about the application form, I'll complete it"..... sorry but I have zero sympathy with the bank. I have total sympathy with every single ordinary person equally affected like I was.
You should have had a rainy day fund and not over extended yourself
@@pattimaeda6097 oh how I wish it had been that easy! Problem is I was at the time a single working Step Dad, and it was nigh on impossible to save money. I don't know where you're based but here in the UK there's zero help for single Dads no matter what the circumstances are. I respect what you said; in hindsight I shouldn't have taken the commitment on but it was marketed in such a way that I was reassured I would have no problems. Without a doubt it was the insurance policy that was an absolute con. I consider myself as lucky. From what I can gather, hundreds of millions of people lost everything and are in a far worse position. For those, I have every sympathy.
@@martinherts1967 you don’t have to explain anything to patti or anyone. She probably couldn’t walk a mile in your shoes. I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with the insurance company about a work injury. NOT FUN! 3 years later I’m just now having surgeries. Trying to navigate insurance, kids, injury and everything is no walk in the park with or without a rainy day fund. I pray you’re back on track!
@@pattimaeda6097 as a homeowner who came close to the chopping block, I have to stress that rainy day funds don't really work in dire straits. Things started to fall appart very quickly and if I hadn't gotten help from family, friends and a good amount of luck I couldn't have kept my property. I met also other people in similar or worse conditions and we could all agree that the Illusion of being in control is far more dangerous than the presence or absence of emergency reserves.
Sounds like you are blaming a sub prime problem for your weak spine and crappy insurance?
That Fuld could say that he couldn't think of anything he could have done differently means that he's an idiot or that he thinks that the rest of us are. He should have been sentenced to 100, 000 hours of community service helping people of modest means to get mortgages, although subjecting mortgage seekers to his personality would have been a problem.
His service should have been making license plates, or making little rocks.
bro should be in jail like SBF
@@seliamila1005 Nah, an ankle bracelet and home arrest, with 10 hours out per day at homeless kitchens @ minimum wage, after confiscation of all his other financial resources.
And if he breaks any of the rules, a cell with a monitored computer where he can earn his meals by doing free remote work for non-profits that serve the poor. 🙂
@@maxm2639 eh why he must have the privilege of breathing fresh air? There are people who committed suicide because of the 2008 crisis, Fuld should be in jail
@@seliamila1005 Thanks for the response.
I think legal penalties should be about restitution and, when possible, rehabilitation. An eye for an eye, or suffering for suffering is useful mainly for satisfying our desire for revenge, or maybe decreasing vigilantism.
I know that revenge is important to many people, including those in the Mideast. Or you could look at how revenge benefitted Northern Ireland. Or how well it works out in personal relationships.
Very interesting topic. I did projects in college about Financial fraud. It's insane what some of these guys get away with but even more frightening is that sometimes SEC and other overseers overlook the red flags.
there's a revolving door between government - Wall Street and the regulators.
I don’t know how Dick couldn’t answer “how did this happen?”
How about greed? It was greed!
They were over levered in highly speculative investments and didn’t account for risk whatsoever
Remember what he said I like to eat everybody's heart out well I guess he got his heart eating out
but sorry , leveraging was the only way for them earn billions instead of million ... you should not be jealous .. become a bankster and a billionaire yourselve !!!!
who caress of normal people - noboday who is rich ...
Charles Ponzi would be amazed and so proud.
Hahaha 😆
Lol Ponzi tried to make his mess right, he's a choirboy compared to corporate scum
ponzi will look like saint, these bankers bet against their investors and they peddled this house credit AAA. Pure evil
the whole USA bankingsystem is a fraud. and they have control to ALL banks in the world except N-korea. ALL the bankingsystem is made by them, swift system, petro$, US $ printing machine, BIS, ECB, IMF, FED, worldbank, bank of asia, all in control USA
I beg to differ, that honor goes to the one and only Bernie Madoff!
At 11:43 we have Head of PR for Lehman Brothers Andrew Gowers (or Tubby Gowers as Private Eye called him). His next job would be head of Corporate Communications at BP during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The very opposite of the Midas touch.
Serious bad luck for that guy
54:19 “After twenty years of service, I had nothing.” Welcome to life as an hourly employee.
There will always be someone who will and will take the world down when it comes to money!
Unbelievable a major bank can be brought down by utter incompetence at the very top
Most of the heads of the top bank followed the same mantra as Dick Fuld; the difference was he was the most greedy.
@Chris Summers: This wasn't incompetence. These guys weren't stupid, they left FABULOUSLY RICH. The found a loophole and blew it open, knowing full well the damage, when it crashed. THEY BLEW THIS BUBBLE... knowing all bubbles burst.
It was pure greed and wretched excess.
Greed
“What should I have done?” Not over leveraged other people’s money to make personal profits. All these banks would have been allowed to fail; none should have been bailed out. And the leadership should have been tried for criminal negligence and recklessness in causing this and frankly should be sent to prison for outright theft.
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Remember the Contractor who was owed 1million dollars for work he had done. Compare him to the trader, Larry McDonald who was involved with the venture, he jumped ship and left with millions in compensation.
This is an excellent summary- well produced, just excellent- thank you
At that time I used to work near Liverpool Street and used to pass their offices daily. I remember the reverberations of that crash and it's consequences.
A brilliant documentary about the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Several thoughts
1. This was a very well made video. Great video clips and interviews of the actual players to support the story.
2. This Dick Fuld appears to be a CEO who was reckless, treated people poorly and disliked by everybody. How did he become CEO? Definitely not the admired and loved CEO that Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan is.
3. Fannie Mae and the credit rating companies are also greatly responsible for the financial crash. Giving loans to everyone and then marking these loans as AAA has adverse consequences.
4. Bravo to Hank Paulson and Treasury for refusing to bailout bad actors like Lehman, which has placed some fear in Wall Street.
5. The fact that Fuld was able to earn $500 million during his tenure is outrageous and shows no oversight by the board of directors, which as Warren Buffett correctly calls them as an "good old boys club."
6. It is embarrassing and shocking that the US Government has not put in jail or at least brought criminal charges against Fuld, Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide), Hank Greenberg (AIG) and Raymond McDaniel (Moodys)
Jamie Dimon is a farce and fraud, and just as guilty as the rest.
its amazing to me that u think there is a big difference between Fuld and Paulson, these people are all intertwined and were all making hundreds of millions of dollars from the system that was doomed to fail long term but short term making an astronomic profit, Paulson pushed the government to pass the law on higher leverage for banks btw. There is nothing that Lehman did that all of the other investment banks didn't. They all knew what was happening, people who could do anything to stop this got paid to do nothing.
What happened with the recent Epstein case??
I love that Enron is the unit of measure
Dick Fold was out of a job after 42 years, like we are supposed to feel bad. He was making 500 mil. A year! I bet he is still living large
What a name.
@@Dutchy-1168 dude, that makes no sense. I don’t like Dick Fuld but he did not do anything illegal. His bank made stupid investments but they were not illegal. Bernie madoff literally took peoples money and did not invest it like he said. That was illegal.
Bet on it 😝
he currently works @ Matrix Private Capital Group ,72 years of age an still getting away with ripping folk off
His name's Dick Fuld. Fuld. It was spelled out at the beginning.
"What should I have done?" I dunno, maybe not lend money to people with no assets or jobs?
The banks just chased profits and targets and got complacent like always
Not to mention leveraging themselves to the tits.
It's okay. Now we are just dying off the poor.
The question is how much did Fuld lose? The captain should go down with the ship. People are being too civil. There needs to be consequences. They need to put the fear of their life in to these people that have the power to ruin other people's lives for their own profit. They have no real fear. There needs to be power in the masses to show what happens to people when they do these things.
Absolutely. They profit individually whatever happens hence their arrogance in the face of their stupidity. This will only stop when executives are made financially liable.
nothing. he lost nothing.
@@alfredthegreat9543 WHAT makes you think the bank heads were stupid??? THEY MADE BILLIONS..ignorance is just their EXCUSE.Compared to them, Madoff was an amateur...and HE'S in prison. Deregulation is a license to steal...THEY walked away rich...
@@FrekeOne guess he a pal of trump or PUTIN.
Great story about what can actually go wrong when greed and egos get in the way of thoughtfulness and humanity 💔
As an ex Lucent employee, outside the USA, it would be interesting to hear what actually happened in New Jersey 🤷♂️
Recession is most likely the result of an external factor. For the first time in decades, the United States is losing its clout as a federal reserve currency. They don't have any more economies to use to control inflation, and less money is being spent on stock and oil trading than in the past. They all lend support to the idea that a new multilateral world order is in the works.
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Fuld is like a comic book villain come to life. Everything about him comes across as evil and manipulative.
He's the poster boy for ultimate Corporate Greed and lack of any ethics...a real life villain
On the other hand, investors/wall street doesn't want Billy butter cup as CEO. They demand a Godzilla corporate psychopath to increase the bottom line at any and all cost.
sbf makes fuld look like noob
This bankrupcy is the proof that it can be done. So there is no too big to fail. Many more banks should have been let go to bankrupcies.
It ruined the economy for the next 10 years and we are still recovering from it, just because the government wouldn't fund 30 billion, the entire world lost trillions.
JPMorgan
100% agree. COVID was another example of why bailing anyone out for poor planning wreaks havoc on all of us. Stimulus checks, bailouts- none of it should have happened.
I'd advocate axing of the Top management rather than letting the Bank fail.
@@ByzantineCapitalManagement what would have happened if the bank failed altogether?
The bankruptcy lawyer who could not believe they would let Lehman go bankrupt is also the guy who blames the entire thing on people losing the fear and that risk was not factor. Well if that is not the pot calling the kettle black.
Lehman Brothers had the name and the ability in bringing massive amount money from the “market” to fund the majority of home loans in the U.S from 1998 to 2008 (Very little or nothing was paying back to those foreign investors (foreign banks). The bottom line is that The U.S did not lose anything because no house or home walks over to Europe or Asia. Thankyou Lehman Brothers & WAMU for sacrificed yourself for the good of the country.
Can u explain me more please I wanna knoe every detail
Real Talk... Too Big to Fail and Too Greedy to Quit...
This guy has a face only a mother can love. These guys live on ripping people off and are a dime a dozen.
They should all be in prison having their $h!t pushed in by some lifer.
All investment banks are, JP morgan single handedly bankrupted Greece
@@davids8127 indeed
Stop crying
@@jakelamotta7904 Jake LaMotta😃still fighting Jake?
John Thain - great hindsight call.
The best documentary i ever watched...🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you. That was excellent.
Investors can’t predict the future, bearish periods automatically give way for a new set of stocks to buy and watch while setting the stage for a new profitable uptrend. I have come across articles of people that grossed profits up to $250k during this crash, what are the best stocks to put on a watch list or buy at the moment?
It's precisely at times like these that investors need to be on guard against the next certainty. You don't have to act on every forecast, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor that can provide you with entry and exit points on the shares/ETF you focus on.
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Thanks so much for these please keep uploading !!!!
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Greed is never good.
Neither is envy.
Be happy with what you have.
Greed is the primary characteristic of the people belonging to the tribe
@@mskidi Now, now, there, be careful.
All tribes are susceptible to temptations.
@@RUHappyATM Sure, thats why the Fulds', the Maddoffs, the Bankman-Frieds, the Boeskys, the Jordan Belforts etc all belong to different tribes..
"Be happy with what you have." Such as no home?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
Yes, I see what you did there...twisting my words.
Dick Fold” Increase risk tolerance” also Dick Fold “ I have no idea how this could happen”.
..Nobody can become financially successful overnight. They put in background work but we tend to see the finished part. Fear is a dangerous component, hindering us from taking bold steps we need in other to reach our goals. you have to contend with inflation, recession, decisions from the Feds and all. I was able to increase my portfolio by $289k in months. You have to seek for help in the right places
All big corps are just a cohort of centralised system working together, and any damage to one can have a dangerous ripple effect on every other one. I learned a long time ago to not trust corporations. Most of my money is in the stock market and my businesses. I keep only what I need to spend in my checking account.
@Dave Delva Impressive! I've actually been looking into advisors lately, the news I've been seeing in the market hasn't been so encouraging, who's the professional coaching you?
@Dave Delva Thank you for this Pointer. It was easy to find your handler, he seems very proficient and flexible. I booked a call session with him.
@@bernisejedeon5888 careful! He lost or perhaps scammed me out of sizeable % of my investment account.
Essentially, Repo 105 is an aggressive and deceitful accounting off-balance sheet device which was used to temporarily remove securities and troubled liabilities from Lehman's balance sheet while reporting its quarterly financial results to the public. These transactions were recorded as sales rather than as loans.
"Bank of Evil - Formerly Lehman Brothers" - Despicably Me
Can't wait to see the episode for FTX. Alot still has to play out though.
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has torn into global markets, with investors ripping up their forecasts for further rises in interest rates and dumping bank stocks around the world. I'm at a crossroads deciding if to liquidate my dipping 200k stocck portfolio, what’s the best way to take advantage of this bear market?
The SVB situation is a reminder that Fed hikes are having an effect, even if the economy has held up so far,” It’s precisely at times like these that investors need to be on guard against the next certainty. You don’t have to act on every forecast, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor.
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Is this some sort of copy/pasta? Why are variations of this comment posted on most finance videos? lol
I understand "trickle down economics", but still, I'm entertained by all this. Feeling immune, "it's great". Ignorance is very, very bliss.
At the end Fuld says he has no idea what happened. Dude...that's the whole point! No one at Lehman knew what was happening. Of course it's going off the rails, because no one was steering the enterprise. One guy totally hit the nail on the head when he said you don't finance long term obligations with short term obligations. No one does that!! I learned that the first day in b-school!! I felt sorry for the lady who lost her entire pension after committing 20 years of her life to the cause. You would think Lehman would have learned from Bear Stearn's mistakes, just six months earlier. Nope.
This stuff takes way longer than 6 months to setup & then collapse.
It's all just jews taking as much as they can from people.
@Ryan shuell : OF COURSE Fuld knew what was happening. He, and his cronies were making MILLIONS yearly. Deregulation merely removed the risk TO THEM, LEGALLY.
And now they're pretending to be idiot 8yr olds...AND YOU'RE BUYING THAT TOO...
BULLSHIT. I worked at Lehman Brothers and I KNEW their investments in derivatives was bringing the company down. But I was just a computer programmer and had ZERO say so in what Lehman was doing!
@Charles Martell Oh yeah. One of the first ones to go.
"Overall, Fuld received nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007. In 2007, he was paid a total of $22,030,534, which included a base salary of $750,000, a cash bonus of $4,250,000, and stock grants of $16,877,365."
Banks were used as medium for greatest of larceny the USA have seen.
With the invention of mutual funds on the like of Black Hole that was specific to suck anything related to $$€€ and the like.
Brilliant documentary.
Putting well earned money into the stock market can be over emphasize for first time investors unlike a bank where interest is sure thing. Well basically times are uncertain, the stock market is out of control and banks are gradually failing. I’m planning on a ballpark figure of £5m for retirement and I have about £900k loaded up for this, could they be any opportunities for a boomer like me?
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scammer thread. one person + many accnts 😂
Sounds like no one wanted to bail out such a poor, kind hearted, caring human being.
It’s wild that a banker feels the government should have stepped in so save Lehman Brothers because of the amount money that was lost afterwards because of Lehman brothers collapse. Money is everything to them.
The Lehman brothers collapse was just the symptom not the disease!
How dare government would not use tax payers money to bail out a man who earned $500m a year? 🤔
And they're terrified of socialism when it's about protecting people from medical bankruptcy and student loan debt.
To hear bankers act as if there important or worthy of the peoples help is sickening. The ego of these people is so perverted.
What!? What about capitalism? I don't think real true capitalist should ask the wicked government for money. Let the market regulate itself. And whatever else people say.
This was very well made, great work
+1 .. Agreed. .. Informative, entertaining, well done.
None of these bankers went to jail
Yet we throw in jail a 17 year old for stealing a bottle of aspirin
The level of confidence Lehman's people had that somebody would bail them out, no matter what, provides profound insight into how the situation arose in the first place.
And then they had the unmitigated gall to talk to the fed about "consequences" if they didn't receive the taxpayer funds that they felt their own recklessness entitled them to.
SO, I'm privileged in the Education that I have access to...The up & Down,History Of!
Let the bankers down. But don't let the bank go down and transfer it instead into state property. Three years later you can sell it back to the market with profits. The governments have to be aware again of their (legislative) power and use it against the casino-banking-system.
It's amazingly sounds like pure theft and yet no jail time served. That is for sure 100% why it will happen again
Of course it's going to happen again! I'm still trying to figure out how in the world a bank gets to the point where the government bales them out along with the car manufacturers?! Then amazingly bank shut down or open under another name along with the car manufacturers either selling to the Japanese or the Chinese, but haven't heard about nobody paying the money back! Now I wish someone would explain to me how that's done, short of walking off with a windfall!!!!!😡
Writing this in 2023 it is happening again .
@@vanessawilliams4432 Good question. Perhaps it's because this money is created inside the banking system. It seems sort of like if we could print our own money and buy stuff with it and if we make a profit, we get to keep the profit. But if it goe bust, we can just print up some more money and start over. But like George Carlin said, "it's a really big club but you ain't in it".
it was all planned. thats why. it gonne happen again now. Look at the rich, they all are selling there stockshare's..... look at Pelosi.........5.000.000.000$ sold last weeks.
This was immoral and straight stupid…but not theft. They didn’t go to jail because no law was broken. What these bank ceos deserved was to get fired and not go back into the financial industry. With regulations today and the lack of subprime mortgages, chances of this happening again are low. The recession we are currently in is due to different reasons.
The loss of value, liquidity, the shockwaves throughout the financial institutions all over the world. They mentioned everything but the loss of life. Every crash creates also death, but none of them mentioned it because that is how much they care, zero.
And of course no one was arrested, right? This one i am not sure
The worst and most despicable people - this corporate greed is the epitome of what’s wrong with the world then and continues to this day
The mistake wasn't bailing or not bailing out LB, the mistake was letting unsupervised wall street vampires gamble unchecked
very interesting documentary. Although not mentioned here, the 1930s era Glass -Stegall act was repealed in 1999. The glass-steagall act prohibited banks from doing both investment and commercial banking.
Comparing the top executives at the biggest banks to the "masters of the universe" is pretty accurate tbh
*Masters* of the universe
@@14031993 thank you I have corrected it now
the FED does exactly the same thing, PRINTING money from nothing........
It’s called hubris
I had a son 5 days after this happened, I’m not a financial guy by no means. But I lost everything, my mortgage, car you name it. Luckily I was still fairly young. I used this time as a learning experience. I see the signs😮
You see the signs today? What can you advise for us younger generations to prepare for the coming crisis?
Did you lost money at Lehman Brothers brokerage? I believe they had SIPC insurance up to 500k.
You shouldn’t have borrowed what you couldn’t afford -that’s on yoy
@@naimas8120 rent or live with parents
Yet won't mention what they are. How bold of you.
8:12 Leman Brothers “using borrowed money to invest in the stock market” - This is what lead to the stock market crash of 1929.
“Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.”
The writer and philosopher George Santayana is quoted , “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Excellent documentary, excellent explanation of how the dumpster fire started.
A lesson on the dangers of leverage
This is what happens when bankers like Polson are put in charge of regulations for bankers. A leopard never changes its spots.
Could be worse……you can get a regulator who knows nothing about banking and have them do real damage.
@@8fconsulting147 how about a regulator who cares about the ordinary bank customer who just wants to get loans when needed and have someplace RISK free to keep their hard earned savings? Poulsun was asleep at the wheel in 2008 or he's completly corupt.
Interesting but also very easy shots from even cheaper seats in retrospect.
And I worked there at Lehman in 1979 at 55 Water Street.. A class act. The best. They treated you with respect. What happened to Lehman in 2008 was a market bubble only the FED could cure.
I lost 70k on a Chicago remodel job due to the bankruptcy. Which turned into 130k in tax and penalties. Yet they got a bailout and I did not.
He walked away with Millions and yet......the workers got nothing.
Even though they had worked there for many many years.
He is most likely sipping wine on a deck chair at his pool, and admiring his huge mansion at the same time.
Top level bankers always get away with it. The workers would of no doubt faced issues having the Lehmann Brothers name on thier CV when looking for thier next role. If there were any left
Dick Fuld should have to attend financial training 5 days a week for the rest of his life.
He should have to work the drive thru at taco Bell the rest of his life.
Wrong you should be in a prison cell
Signature Bank in New York just went under yesterday. Here we go again
37:20 I was hoping they were going to say it so badly. I needed it. I needed them to say it. so badly i needed it
Simple, the banks lent to people for mortgages that were very inflated. Knowing, that these people, when the rates went up, could not pay. But the banks were willing to do that, for current profits. They took the money and ran. It was built on US household real estate imagined wealth.
They all should have gone to prison
if it were a normal economic cycle, the boom & rally should've been done in 2005-2006, yet it kept going more than a year. that's why amount of pain was elevated too huge into the aftermath. it seems people still can't figure out why it lasted one extra year. if anyone comes up with an idea of what caused it to last, (s)he might deserve the nobel.
This guy reminds me of Mr.Ramsey in the 1956 Rod Serling movie PATTERNS.What a great old movie that was.
I worked for Bear Stearns and lost my job because of this mess. Left me so disgusted I switched careers.
Red flags were blatantly ignored, and the rot was allowed to perpetuate.
I love how the government pushed for banks to give loans to everyone, even if they couldn't afford it.
Then the banks realized they could increase profits by the gazillion by following that (And the risks too, they were fully aware of that)
Then both had their heads so far up their bums than when the market did a deadspin and grab the US economy (Then the EU and so like dominoes) with it did the "surprised pikachu face meme"
@charlesmartell4484 Funny thing... I think someone during the Great Depression said pretty much the same thing "When I saw that even the plumber was into the same stocks as I... I knew it was time to get out"
History doesn't repeat itself... but it often rhymes
You need to learn the REAL cause of the crash and it wasn't the banks giving loans!!! Turn off Fox Fake F'ing "NEWS" !!!!!! To someone like myself who actually worked in the industry, you sound like a silly 5 year old!!!!
@@bjbell52 I have never in my life watched Fox News for anything more than meme compilations. Well, because you worked in the industry I will gladly listen/read to your points... I am not being sarcastic or anything; I will read it
And search a little deeper to see just who it was in the government that created this push. Thanks.
Minorities and women should have made their payments
Mr “Crush the Enemy” was outraged when better thieves than himself won the bag.