ML-Implode News - Four Years Since Lehman Brothers, 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Now Even Bigger, Fight Reform

``After regulators forced the shotgun wedding of the investment bank Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase in March 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission sent teams of observers to Lehman Brothers to gather information and monitor the company's condition. Like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers had invested heavily in mortgage bonds.
Instead of sharing their findings, however, as they had agreed to do, the regulators did what regulators too often do: behave like naughty 2-year-olds hoarding a new toy. Had they shared information, they would have discovered that Lehman's statements about the robustness of its liquidity were false, according to an independent examiner appointed by the bankruptcy court to determine what had gone wrong at Lehman.''

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Four Years Since Lehman Brothers, 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Now Even Bigger, Fight Reform