{"id":2271,"date":"2008-09-18T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2008-09-18T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:14:17","slug":"lehman-and-citi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Lehman and Citi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cimg8672.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"295\" height=\"237\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">This was taken on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1508\">Sept 15<\/a>, the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2261\">Lehman Brothers<\/a>\u00a0went down made public.\u00a0 Will this still be a Citi Field when it completes, or when the first bat strikes the fast ball next season?\u00a0\u00a0 Lehman used to be part of Smith Barney.\u00a0 Smith Barney is part of Citi now.\u00a0 The IB looks gloomy.\u00a0 Lehman Brothers&#8217; broker\/dealer part is still doing fine, only the investment banking side that&#8217;s gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly CEO Dick Fuld turned down a Korean bank&#8217;s offer last week &#8211; he might consider to have bodyguards 24\/7 and even a gun.\u00a0 What was his reason for the refusal?\u00a0 The proud Wall Street icon should\u00a0not rest in the Asians&#8217; hand?\u00a0 I do remember WS&#8217;\u00a0reaction when Jap bought Rockefeller back then.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t pretty.\u00a0 Although people like to say the color of money is green.\u00a0 But I bet there are shades, and your green is sure not the same as mine: -nuances &#8211; such as political view\/association, religions, race .. all kind of things made the\u00a0shades.<\/p>\n<p>Now ..\u00a0it&#8217;s a huge\u00a0global village now anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was taken on Monday\u00a0Sept 15, the day Lehman Brothers\u00a0went down made public.\u00a0 Will this still be a Citi Field when it completes, or when the first bat strikes the fast ball next season?\u00a0\u00a0 Lehman used to be part of Smith Barney.\u00a0 Smith Barney is part of Citi now.\u00a0 The IB looks gloomy.\u00a0 Lehman Brothers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}