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Paulson, in other words, raised the specter of “moral hazard,” or the
government’s inadvertent promotion of reckless lending, trading and other risky
behavior by guaranteeing that banks won’t be allowed to fail. And he risked
bringing up his own Wall Street lineage to bring home the point.
When the Treasury and its central bank opened the Primary Dealer Credit [...]

By Jamie Chisholm
Wednesday Jun 25 2008 13:25
Fears are mounting that conditions are set to deteriorate markedly in credit markets.
Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) warned this week that spreads on credit default swaps, which track the cost of insuring corporate debt against default, could soon spike beyond the levels seen at the time of the Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) [...]

THE SKEPTIC: Banks’ Exotic Fear
Last Update: 6/19/2008 11:09:24 AM
By Arindam Nag
A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN
In a few weeks investors in some European banks will have to brace themselves to
hear about two different potential sources of losses: basis risk and credit value
adjustments.
It sounds exotic, but simply put, basis risk [...]

CORRECT: Lehman Is Not Cutting Dividend, Already Raised $6B
Last Update: 6/16/2008 4:32:27 PM
(Adds conference call comments from CEO Fuld and other executives beginning in
the first paragraph and updates stock price.)
By Jed Horowitz
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.(LEH) announced a $2.8 billion
second-quarter loss Monday that [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — BlackRock Inc. invested in Lehman Brothers’ equity
offering this week, Chief Executive Laurence Fink told CNBC on Wednesday. He
declined to say how much BlackRock invested in the brokerage firm. Fink said
Lehman is adequately structured to avoid a liquidity crisis like the one that
almost felled Bear Stearns in March. It’s time to start [...]