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Hello, I'm Helen Joyce, the finance editor of the Economist. Welcome to a

special edition of Money Talks. It's 10 years since the darkest moment of the

global financial crisis, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers has

filed for bankruptcy stocks all around the world are tanking because of the

crisis on Wall Street. The collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a wave of panic on

Wall Street. Today there is unprecedented turmoil in our capital markets.

Lehman Brothers got caught in this financial tsunami. There's not a bank in the

world that has not been affected by the global storm. Some more than others. This is a

serious global crisis and therefore requires a serious global response. We will do

what it takes to resolve this crisis and the world's economy will emerge

stronger as a result. What lessons have been learned since then? How prepared

is the global financial system for a future crisis? Andrew Palmer, our business

affairs editor, was the banking editor in 2008. Andrew, you still scarred. Yes

absolutely totally traumatized. And Phil Coggan, our Bartleby columnist, was then our

buttonward columnist explaining the almost daily jaw-dropping falls in the stock

markets. What's the most dramatic day you can remember? Was that weekend as

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