With apologies to Harper’s Index, some collected statistics on the collapse of Lehman and the roller-coaster year that followed.
Add your own significant digits in the comments section.
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Number of siblings who made up the original Lehman Brothers, founded as a dry-goods store in 1844: 3
Age of Bavarian immigrant Henry Lehman when he founded the business: 23
Percentage difference between the DNA of former Lehman CEO Dick “The Gorilla” Fuld and an actual gorilla: 1.6
Lehman assets listed in its record bankruptcy filing: $639 billion
Assets listed in the second-largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy filing of Worldcom $107 billion
Pounds of yellowcake uranium left on Lehman’s books from a commodity trade:
