You have to admit, Lehman Brothers had a lot of, em, balls

[Jackeens]

From an interview with former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern:

Anyway, it was the collapse of Lehman Brothers that did the real damage, Ahern insists. “That decision will in history be written as the biggest mistake that American administration ever made, because Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles (sic) everywhere.”

Tentacles, testicles, what's the difference? :shrug:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1010/1224256328159.html

[blueworld]

1. Gotta love Bertie...what a riot.

However AIG gets my vote for biggest & most invasive brass clunkers.

And Hanky-Panky Paulson gets my vote for oldest raisins. :rofl: :rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

2. Lehman punches above their weight.

I think allowing them to fail, at the behest of those unseen (Goldman Sachs, who hated Lehman with the intensity os a thousand suns), was the biggest mistake made.

As much as I hate to say it.