10 Years After the Lehman Brothers Collapse – What are the risks to our economy now?

September holds the dubious honor of being the month that marked two cataclysmic events with profound global impact: the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that ignited the war on terror, and the Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers that marked the beginning of the global financial crisis.

"This is an incredible week, I think in the U.S. and for the whole world," said Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who moderated a panel of Wall Street veterans at the Tarnopol Dean’s Lecture Series on ‘The Future of Finance: 10 Years After the Financial Crisis.’ "If I look back on the first 18 years of this new millennium, the two most important dates are 9/11 and 9/15.

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