{"id":4405,"date":"2008-09-13T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2008-09-13T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T16:06:59","slug":"its-the-weekend-right-time-for-another-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4405\/its-the-weekend-right-time-for-another-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s The Weekend, Right? Time For Another Deal."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lehman Brothers has been shopping their firm.\u00a0 Here’s Paul Muolo<\/a>, who co-authored a book I’m reading, Chain of Blame<\/em><\/a>, with OC Register’s Matt Padilla<\/a>:<\/p>\n

THIS JUST IN<\/strong>: It could be a busy Sunday again at the Treasury Department<\/strong> in Washington. Lehman Brothers<\/strong> (and Aurora Loan Services<\/strong>) may be sold in a deal brokered by the government. The rumor mill was working overtime dishing out speculation on Merrill Lynch<\/strong>, whose share price was sinking to a new 52-week low. There was also talk the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.<\/strong> was contemplating the takeover of two depositories. Stay tuned…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hank Paulson works weekends.<\/p>\n

Lehman Brothers is one of the most treasured names on Wall Street.\u00a0 Its roots go back to before the Civil War, when they operated as cotton traders and established the Cotton Exchange in New York.\u00a0 They financed Sears, Woolworth’s, and Macy’s, at the turn of the century.\u00a0 They had a large hand in financing the growth that defined the 20th Century as “The American Century”, providing capital for the movie, television, aerospace, and information services industries.<\/p>\n

One more venerable investment banking firm becomes a casualty of the credit meltdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lehman Brothers has been shopping their firm.\u00a0 Here’s Paul Muolo, who co-authored a book I’m reading, Chain of Blame, with OC Register’s Matt Padilla: THIS JUST IN: It could be a busy Sunday again at the Treasury Department in Washington. Lehman Brothers (and Aurora Loan Services) may be sold in a deal brokered by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4374,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4374\/mortgage-market-week-in-review-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":4405,"position":0},"title":"Mortgage Market Week in Review","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it\u2019s Friday again, so it\u2019s time for another Mortgage Market Week in Review.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m going to talk just a little about Fannie and Freddie and then deal with some of the other issues that are currently affecting the financial markets. 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