... hard to negotiate for better deals, the value of the firm kept falling until no one was willing to buy it, and Lehman had no options but file for Bankruptcy (Heaton, 2008). Decisions made prior to the crisis such as stepping up its lending in some the riskiest loan types, leaning on appraisers to inflate property values to support bigger mortgages ... ...

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