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Lehman Brothers' former CEO blames bad regulations 
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Lehman Brothers' former CEO blames bad regulations for bank's collapse | Business | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... s-collapse

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Thu May 28, 2015 11:34 pm
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They all clubbed together to lobby Greenspan and Paulson to deregulate derivatives/CDS, not that it took much lobbying, and now they're bemoaning lack of regulation... :roll:

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It's the same reason why the Deepwater Horizon went up in smoke and polluted half of the Gulf Of Mexico. Companies working to the minimum standards required by lax regulation.

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