One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the global financial industry has splintered into four camps: winners, survivors, the strategically challenged and those on government life support. This collection of Breakingviews.com articles paints the landscape a year after the panic.


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The financial crisis has made a mess of the global economy. The world needs to make sure that a crisis this bad does not recur. But what exactly should be done? This collection of Breakingviews.com articles, published over the past few months, sets out our manifesto for change.

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To Breakingviews.com readers, the bankruptcy filing of General Motors comes as no surprise. Insolvency has been stalking the carmaker for years, as the accompanying collection of articles - including our suggestion GM seek a voluntary Chapter 11 filing as early as April 2005 – shows.

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Will 2009 be a bigger disaster than 2008? Unless you read Breakingviews.com's predictions for the year ahead, you won't know the answer.

We examine the outlook for the global economy and even offer ways to profit from the recession. No one even remotely curious about the future of finance would venture into 2009 without it.

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From our initial suggestion in October 2005 that Citi should slim down into its larger component parts to our coverage of the bank’s bailout by the US government and its strategic volte-face this year, breakingviews.com has been ahead of the curve. Understand how Citi’s executives and directors for years resisted the logic of becoming smaller rather than larger - a strategy that would have made it more accountable to shareholders and ultimately better aligned its interests to the public good.

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