How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix

By DEVIN LEONARD, New York Times
Sat, 05/02/2009 - 7:31pm

A deal maker at Lehman pioneered ways to package debt which brought huge profits but set off the bank’s collapse.

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