THE BANKING CRISIS
WHY A
KILLED
LEHMAN BROTHERS
& BEAR STEARNS
The financial crisis—which caused
Wall Street to implode, more than
100,000 people to lose their jobs so far and more
than 2 million more to face foreclosure—can be
attributed to greedy companies exploiting peo-
ple who were financially illiterate, the majority
of them Black and Latino. CONTINUED ON PAGE 48
BY DARYL C.
HANNAH