scenes from a meltdown Sept. 15, 2008

My HERO!

By Jessica Pressler, a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

Okay, now we really feel for Lehman employees. Not only are they already totally pissed that Bank of America threw them over in order to buy Merrill Lynch at $29 a share — a 70 percent premium to their closing price on Friday — but to add insult to injury, The Wall Street Journal has plastered this completely queer photo of Merrill CEO John Thain looking at Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis like he’s Lancelot in chaps at their press conference this morning. Life really is unfair.

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