Afternoon Session - 2022 Meeting
“just like in 2008 and 9, you know, when Lehman fell on a few things...Solomon was bigger relatively by far than Lehman was in 2008 and 9”
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Afternoon Session - 2022 Meeting
“just like in 2008 and 9, you know, when Lehman fell on a few things...Solomon was bigger relatively by far than Lehman was in 2008 and 9”
2021 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“That upbeat view was endorsed by the company's advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).”
Why Warren Buffett Said No to Lehman and AIG in 2008
“This is a 10K of Lehman brothers, and this goes back a little before the panic. Lehman was looking for money at that time... there was clearly a lot of trouble there.”
Warren Buffett On The 2008 Crisis
“And you get a call this time, not from Lehman Brothers, but from AIG”
Warren Buffett On The 2008 Crisis
“Lehman Brothers in particular as the moment of the moment of the crisis. and wonder whether the U.S. government should have stepped in or not.”
Warren Buffett On The 2008 Crisis
“Lehman files for bankruptcy. Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch, AIG gets rescued”
“I think when you have an – well, Lehman had probably a million. I mean, and you get huge counterparty risk.”
“and then Wham-O, and then Lehman, and Merrill was going”
Wesco 2010 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks
“At its peak, something like the Lehman firm just before it went under was pathological”
Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting
“David Einhorn and the questions he raised about Allied Capital and Lehman Brothers. We now know that they were 100% correct”
Morning Session - 2010 Meeting
“It was Lehman Brothers. So Lehman Brothers came to us with this list.”
Warren Buffett remembers the 2008 financial crisis | July 11, 2018
“a couple trillion were in other than government money market funds. And if you've got people worried about $2 trillion in this country, you've got a panic like you. You've got a panic like you've neve”
Warren Buffett remembers the 2008 financial crisis | July 11, 2018
“a lot of things that made me very worried about their financial condition. and what would be happening to them under the circumstances that were happening in Wall Street”
Warren Buffett remembers the 2008 financial crisis | July 11, 2018
“we run under problems with the Brits on doing a deal with Lehman because there's some rule in the UK that the shareholders have to vote on it”
Warren Buffett remembers the 2008 financial crisis | July 11, 2018
“Who knows what business Lehman might have been doing? And essentially, I'm guaranteeing their settlement on all of it.”
Warren Buffett remembers the 2008 financial crisis | July 11, 2018
“So Lehman files for bankruptcy.”
Warren Buffett | Testimony | 2008 Financial Crisis | June 2, 2010
“vastly greater numbers that existed at Bear Stearns or at Lehman and something... when Lehman failed, an institution that was showing 15 or so billion of book equity.”