Category: Lehman

Banking’s Wild Geese: Part 2, the recovering

7 October, 2009 (10:01) | Capital markets, Ireland, Lehman, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Yesterday’s post followed banking’s Wild Geese – the former Lehman traders, bankers, and salesmen, profiled in a recent New York Times article, whose lives exploded when their firm did.
 

Three of Lehman’s Wild Geese: unemployed Gelber, gentlemen of leisure Linton, plugger Ollquist
 
Like the dispersed Irish mercenaries, they are defined [...]

Banking’s Wild Geese: Part 1, the casualties

6 October, 2009 (11:23) | Capital markets, Ireland, Lehman, Subprime, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
O the Wild Geese are flying, O the Wild Geese are flying.
We’ve built your canals and railroads, our buildings reach the sky
– “The Wild Geese,” by Mike Harding
 
In 1691, after the Williamite Army crushed the Irish Jacobite army in the Battle of the Boyne, their army was allowed to disperse.  They took [...]