Lehman Brothers: The Trick That Broke the World

It survived the Civil War, two World Wars, and the Great Depression. It took a single accounting manoeuvre — used deliberately, repeatedly, and with full knowledge of senior management — to bring it down in a weekend. Repo 105 was not a rogue trade. It was a decision.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside the collapse of Lehman Brothers — how fifty billion dollars was temporarily removed from the balance sheet each quarter to make the firm look healthier than it was, what the auditors signed off on, and why the failure of one bank cost the global economy twenty-two trillion dollars.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes daily