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Michael S. Barr: I think it is very hard to hold up the failure of Lehman Brothers and the way it was managed as a model of how we want…

On the recordOctober 21, 2009
I think it is very hard to hold up the failure of Lehman Brothers and the way it was managed as a model of how we want to deal with financial crises in the future.
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Michael S. Barr

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Barr criticizes Lehman Brothers' failure as a poor model for handling financial crises.

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