When did you realize we were in a financial crisis?By Danielle Chiriguayo, Amy Scott, Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Betsy Streisand, Jeff Peters, and Mitchell HartmanSeptember 20, 2018Mario Tama/Getty ImagesMarketplace veterans take a look back at the moments they realized the crisis had hit.POSTED IN: Economy financial crisis 2008 divideddecade Great Recession Bear Stearns Lehman Brothers Bank of America Merrill Lynch read
Following the money: What happened to a nearly $17 billion bank settlement?By Tracey SamuelsonSeptember 19, 2018Davis Turner/Getty ImagesWe break down how a fine is distributed. POSTED IN: Economy financial crisis divideddecade Bank of America bank fines Great Recession banking ListenreadDownloadDownload
The business case for a stock market speed bumpBy Molly WoodSeptember 19, 2018Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA 350-millisecond delay can help long-term investors get equal footing with high-frequency traders, argues IEX's CEO.POSTED IN: Tech high speed trading stock market IEX brad katsuyama divideddecade financial crisis stocks trading ListenreadDownloadDownload
How a piece of software helped fuel the 2008 financial crashBy Molly WoodSeptember 17, 2018Tavner Murphy/MarketplaceThe seeds of the Great Recession included a lot of greed, fraud ... and some technology.POSTED IN: software Divided Decade financial crisis mortgage-backed securities ListenreadDownloadDownload
Record global debt: What it means for the next crisisBy Anu AnandSeptember 14, 2018STR/AFP/Getty ImagesGlobal debt is on track to hit new highs this year.POSTED IN: global debt financial crisis China debt ListenreadDownloadDownload
Lessons learned from an economist's diary during the Lehman collapseBy Sabri Ben-Achour, Daniel Shin, and Redmond CarolipioSeptember 14, 2018NICHOLAS ROBERTS/AFP/Getty ImagesWe spoke with Grant Thornton economist Diane Swonk about the diary she kept throughout the financial crisis in 2008. POSTED IN: Lehman Brothers lehman brothers collapse financial crisis ListenreadDownloadDownload
A view from the center of the Lehman Brothers collapseBy Sabri Ben-Achour and Jonaki MehtaSeptember 14, 2018Kiyoshi Ota/Getty ImagesTom Russo, former general counsel at Lehman Brothers and AIG talked to us about how the fall of Lehman Brothers could have been stopped. POSTED IN: Lehman Brothers lehman brothers collapse financial crisis bankruptcy ListenreadDownloadDownload
Once "too small to thrive," now some banks are "too big to fail"By Sabri Ben-AchourSeptember 11, 2018Chris Hondros/Getty ImagesThere was a time when most banks were small. They liked it that way. Today, just six banks manage more than half the assets in the entire U.S. banking industry.POSTED IN: Economy Divided Decade too big to fail Great Recession financial crisis Banks banking ListenreadDownloadDownload
Why Lehman still exists 10 years after its collapseBy Tracey SamuelsonSeptember 10, 2018BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty ImagesThe investment bank's failure triggered nearly 80 bankruptcy proceedings involving hundreds of its subsidiaries.POSTED IN: Economy divideddecade Lehman Brothers financial crisis Housing Banks Great Recession investment bank Barclays ListenreadDownloadDownload
