Morgan Stanley (MS), Bank of America Corp (BAC): 7 Mind-Blowing Numbers From the Lehman Brothers Disaster

Still, $5 million of Fuld’s 2007 compensation was in cash. That’s an amount most of us would probably be ecstatic to save over a lifetime.

This final number fell in my lap just today thanks to a Bloomberg Businessweek interview. It represents Meredith Whitney’s estimate of her own personal losses on financial stocks during the meltdown. This is a major revelation considering Whitney was lauded as a financial-stock genius and crisis seer both during and after the downturn.

As she told Businessweek: “I rode Lehman all the way down to zero. It’s pretty ironic, right? That, I don’t think anyone knows.” They do now, Meredith, they do now.

Matt Koppenheffer owns shares of Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays. The Motley Fool recommends Bank of America and General Motors. The Motley Fool owns shares of Bank of America and LAZARD. 

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