Monday, September 15, 2008

Fall of the titans

Lehman Brothers apparently was founded in 1850, and Merrill Lynch in 1914. The fall of these two titans - though Merrill Lynch is merely being sold, not liquidated - truly is an epochal event, symbolizing how high the metaphorical flood waters, no less than the literal ones in various hurricane zones, are rising these days.

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