Slate Money on Lehman, pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and a new paper by Larry Summers.

Slate Money on New Revelations From Inside the Fed During Lehman’s Collapse

Slate Money on New Revelations From Inside the Fed During Lehman’s Collapse

Slate’s weekly business and finance podcast.
Oct. 4 2014 1:11 PM

The “Second Guessing Lehman” Episode

Slate Money on whether we should have let Lehman Brothers fail and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

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On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salman of Fusion, Slate’s Jordan Weissmann, and Cathy O’Neil of Mathbabe.org talk about why the Fed allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, and a new paper from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

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Cathy O'Neil is a former hedge fund quant and blogger at Mathbabe.org.

Felix Salmon is a journalist.

Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.