Pictures of the Decade Part 3
December 8th 2009 20:36
The third series in a selection of 100 Reuters pictures that have defined the decade.
Protesters hold signs behind Fuld as he takes his seat to testify at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in Washington. The collapse of 158-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers, headed by Richard Fuld, triggered the global economic crisis and worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Fuld and other fallen titans of Wall Street, former "masters of the universe," came under fire as the excesses of the financial industry were scrutinised by the White House and an angry public. Lehman, weighed down by bad assets, filed the largest-ever U.S. bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, after it was unable to find a buyer to come to its rescue. Taken on October 6, 2008 by Jonathan Ernst
link to some other really outstanding pictures of the decade from Reuters
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