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A decade on, Global Financial Crisis still reverberates

A sign in front of Lehman Brothers in New York on September 15, 2008

A sign in front of Lehman Brothers in New York on 15 September 2008 Source: AAP

It would become known as the Global Financial Crisis, the GFC, but to many its centrepiece was September 2008, the day the banking giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.


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By Peggy Giakoumelos

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It would become known as the Global Financial Crisis, the GFC, but to many its centrepiece was September 2008, the day the banking giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.



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