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In September 2008, a name that had stood for nearly 160 years in global finance - Lehman Brothers -- vanished overnight. When its bankruptcy was announced, few realized they were witnessing not just the fall of a single firm, but the unraveling of a financial system built on complexity, leverage, and blind faith in perpetual growth. Within days, global markets plunged, credit froze, and panic rippled from Wall Street to Main Street. The 2008 financial meltdown remains one of the most defining economic events of the 21st century. It was a story of brilliance and blindness -- of innovation that turned into exploitation, and of institutions deemed ""too big to fail"" that ultimately did. Beneath the jargon of derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and credit default swaps lay something deeply human: greed, fear, and the illusion of control. This book, The Fall of Lehman, marks the beginning of the Financial Crisis Series - a journey through the world's greatest financial collapses and the lessons they left behind. Each volume explores how human ambition, systemic weakness, and policy choices converge to create disaster -- and what those crises reveal about the fragility of modern capitalism. In this first book, we dissect the chain of events that led to Lehman's downfall: How deregulation and moral hazard set the stage for disaster. How Wall Street's pursuit of profit fueled a housing bubble that seemed unstoppable. How policymakers struggled -- and sometimes failed -- to contain the contagion. But this is more than a history of numbers and balance sheets. It's a story about people -- bankers who believed they were changing the world, homeowners who lost everything, and leaders forced to choose between moral principle and market survival. As you read, I invite you to reflect not just on what happened, but why it happened -- and what it says about us, our economies, and the systems we build. Because while crises may differ in form and scale, their roots often lie in the same soil: confidence, ambition, and the fragile promise of prosperity. Welcome to The Fall of Lehman. Welcome to the Financial Crisis Series. Oluchi Ike 2025

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