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IPFS News Link • Federal Reserve

Sleep-At-Night-Money Lost in Lehman Lesson Missing $63 Billion

09-09-2009 • Bloomberg

It was commercial paper and the $3.6 trillion money market industry that traded the notes that came close to sinking the global economy -- not a breakdown in credit-default swaps or bank-to-bank lending. The bankers were focused on saving themselves, and commercial paper, as invisible as the air they breathed, never came up at the meetings, according to one of the two dozen executives invited to the New York Fed by its president, Timothy F. Geithner, 48, and Paulson. ‘Erosion of Trust’

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