http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/124 Lessons from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:05:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/124/comment-page-1#comment-1653 Billion Dollar Lessons » Blog Archive » B of A: The Trouble Begins Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:44:24 +0000 http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=124#comment-1653 [...] securities, which BofA now realizes could top $100 billion, are just one of the reasons that we wrote in September that we didn’t like the Merrill deal. The losses may actually be relatively easy to take care of, because the federal government is [...] [...] securities, which BofA now realizes could top $100 billion, are just one of the reasons that we wrote in September that we didn’t like the Merrill deal. The losses may actually be relatively easy to take care of, because the federal government is [...]

]]> http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/124/comment-page-1#comment-1652 Billion Dollar Lessons » Blog Archive » Who Will Fail Next? There’s a Better Question. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:37:58 +0000 http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=124#comment-1652 [...] that it has bought, and how to deal with the continual deterioration due to those problems. (See this post for a longer discussion.) A better model might that of Barclay’s, which walked away from Lehman [...] [...] that it has bought, and how to deal with the continual deterioration due to those problems. (See this post for a longer discussion.) A better model might that of Barclay’s, which walked away from Lehman [...]

]]> http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/124/comment-page-1#comment-1651 Billion Dollar Lessons » Blog Archive » Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: Problems Come into Focus Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=124#comment-1651 [...] Bank of America announced its deal to acquire Merrill Lynch in mid-September, we noted in this space that we were skeptical. Based on the research for our book, we thought Bank of America was making a classic mistake: [...] [...] Bank of America announced its deal to acquire Merrill Lynch in mid-September, we noted in this space that we were skeptical. Based on the research for our book, we thought Bank of America was making a classic mistake: [...]

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