{"id":3139,"date":"2008-12-29T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2008-12-29T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:14:53","slug":"well-it-was-sorta-like-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/well-it-was-sorta-like-d-day","title":{"rendered":"Well, it was SORTA like D-Day . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

This article covering the collapse of Lehman Bros. and the “death of Wall Street” <\/a>isn’t as good as the multi-part extravaganza that the WSJ ran about Bear Stearns<\/a>. There are way too many players involved, too small a space in which to tell the story, and so the death knell — Goldman and Morgan becoming plain old banks — is treated as an afterthought.<\/p>\n

That said, the article features this awesome passage:<\/p>\n

Rolling up to the meetings at around the same time was Goldman’s chief, Mr. Blankfein. A Goldman aide, referring to days of meltdowns and meetings, carped to Mr. Blankfein: “I don’t think I can take another day of this.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Blankfein retorted: “You’re getting out of a Mercedes to go to the New York Federal Reserve — you’re not getting out of a Higgins boat on Omaha Beach,” he said, referring to the World War II experience of a former Goldman head. “So keep things in perspective.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article covering the collapse of Lehman Bros. and the “death of Wall Street” isn’t as good as the multi-part extravaganza that the WSJ ran about Bear Stearns. There are way too many players involved, too small a space in which to tell the story, and so the death knell — Goldman and Morgan becoming … <\/p>\n

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