158 years destroyed in one weekend. In September 2008, Lehman Brothers — a bank that had survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, and two world wars — filed for Chapter 11 with $639 billion in assets, the largest bankruptcy in American history. But the collapse wasn't just bad luck. Inside the firm, a scheme called Repo 105 was hiding $50 billion in toxic assets off the books — an "accounting gimmick," in the words of Lehman's own staff. This is the full autopsy: the rise, the peak, the fraud, the final weekend at the New York Fed, and the reckoning.
Chapters:
0:00 — The Weekend: $639 Billion Gone
0:27 — How We Got Here: 1850–2006
1:25 — The Peak: $4.2 Billion and 30-to-1 Leverage
2:08 — The Rot: Repo 105, the $50 Billion Magic Trick
3:28 — The Collapse: The Final Weekend
5:01 — The Reckoning: No Prison, No Consequences
6:14 — The Lesson: Too Big to Fail
AI disclosure: The visuals in this video are AI-generated cinematic recreations; all events, companies, and figures depicted are real and fact-checked.
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