That didn’t take long…
Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy last Monday, obviously made some bad bets. But whoever designed the company’s building in Manhattan obviously had the type of keen foresight its CEO Richard Fuld lacked. Here’s Lehman Brothers on Sept. 14: Michael Nagle/Getty Images And here’s the same building now, seen from a different ...
Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy last Monday, obviously made some bad bets. But whoever designed the company's building in Manhattan obviously had the type of keen foresight its CEO Richard Fuld lacked.
Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy last Monday, obviously made some bad bets. But whoever designed the company’s building in Manhattan obviously had the type of keen foresight its CEO Richard Fuld lacked.
Here’s Lehman Brothers on Sept. 14:
And here’s the same building now, seen from a different angle:
Guess Barclays didn’t want to wait too long to put its stamp on its new purchase, huh?
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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