Wall Street's Unraveling »

Posted By berkeley 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance

Wall Street as we know it is kaput. It is not just that Merrill Lynch agreed to be purchased by Bank of America or that the legendary investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy or that the insurance giant AIG is floundering. It is not even that these events followed the failure of the investment bank Bear Stearns or the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the largest mortgage lenders. What's really happened is that Wall Street's business model has collapsed.

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