Lehman: immoral capitalism

Bank goes bust. Shareholders get wiped out. Creditors stand to lose over $100bn. Bankruptcy causes further crisis of confidence in entire financial system, requiring potential $700bn bailout funded by taxpayers. Employees get $3.5bn bonuses. Hello, there. Something is wrong with this script. If one was making a film about greed on Wall Street, it would be hard to come up with a better sequence. But this is not fiction. This is Lehman Brothers. The exact details of the bonuses on offer from Barc...