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  • Friday, 5 October, 2018
    Free Lunch Martin Sandbu
    Lehman lessons Premium

    The biggest of bank failures teaches us not to avoid them but to manage them better

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  • Thursday, 4 October, 2018
    FT Magazine
    Finance, the media and a breakdown of trust

    John Authers on his ringside seat to some of the biggest financial stories of our time 

  • Monday, 1 October, 2018
    Special Report Exchanges, Trading and Clearing
    Ten years on, fresh trading risks emerge

    Some fear a new series of threats to market safety

  • Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
    Financial crisis anniversary
    The Optimist

    An illustrated journey through a turbulent decade (with apologies to Voltaire)

  • Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    The Pessimist: a comic satire of the post-crisis world

    (with apologies to Voltaire)

  • Monday, 24 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    Lehman’s legacy is a global pensions mess

    How resolving the financial crisis has stored up problems in retirement saving

  • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    Who was sentenced to jail time for their role in the financial crisis?

    The FT identified 47 bankers jailed. Half were from just one country

  • Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
    Markets Insight Sovereign bonds
    Securitisation shows supranationals’ future scope

    World’s best-rated credits pioneer innovation and could backstop the financial system

  • Monday, 17 September, 2018
    Free Lunch Martin Sandbu
    It was right not to bail out Lehman Brothers Premium

    Aftermath of financial crisis shows it is crucial to restructure debts

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  • Sunday, 16 September, 2018
    Inside Business Jonathan Ford
    Financial sector remains an impenetrable black box

    A decade after the crisis, a bank’s accounts tell you little about its risks

  • Friday, 14 September, 2018
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Post-crisis cure that has stored up economic pain

    It has become clear to many people that their future has been re-priced

  • Friday, 14 September, 2018
    Investing in funds
    Investment winners and losers 10 years after the crash

    Those who held their nerve after Lehman Brothers’ demise have been handsomely rewarded

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    Financial crisis explained

    You asked, we answered. FT journalists respond to reader questions about the crash ten years on

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Explainer Financial crisis anniversary 2:13
    Financial crisis explained: what is the subprime of our decade?

    You asked, we answered: FT journalists on the financial crisis 10 years on

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Explainer Financial crisis anniversary 2:14
    Financial crisis explained: who benefited from the crisis?

    You asked, we answered: FT journalists on the financial crisis 10 years on

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Explainer Financial crisis anniversary 2:14
    Financial crisis explained: the most important lessons learned

    You asked, we answered: FT journalists on the financial crisis 10 years on

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Explainer2:13
    Financial crisis explained: how did it happen?

    You asked, we answered: FT journalists on the financial crisis 10 years on

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    Financial crisis anniversary
    Former regulators defend financial crisis actions

    Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson admit case for bank bailouts failed to sway the public

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    beyondbrics
    Ten years on, EMs offer warning for the west

    ‘Unfair inequality’ of the global financial crisis has opened the door to populism

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    Weathering the financial crisis: how seven lives were changed

    Our readers lost jobs, businesses and houses in the crash. They tell us what happened next

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    Adair Turner
    The banks are safer but debt remains a danger

    Economic recovery has been weak because of a massive growth in leverage

  • Friday, 7 September, 2018
    Free Lunch Martin Sandbu
    Central bankers share blame for post-crisis failings Premium

    The fact others acted wrongly does not mean monetary policymakers should be let off the hook

  • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
    Gillian Tett
    Five surprising outcomes of the 2008 financial crisis

    We learnt the dangers posed by ‘too big to fail’ banks but now they are even bigger

  • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
    Scott Freidheim
    Lehman could — and should — have been saved

    The bank’s former chief administrative officer considers the argument for a bailout

  • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
    FT Series Financial crisis: Are we safer now?
    The story of a house: how private equity swooped in after the subprime crisis

    Blackstone has bought thousands of properties that were caught up in the mortgage meltdown

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