mortgagemeltdown

Richard Fuld knows all too well that he's the poster boy for the meltdown that hit Wall Street a year ago. As chairman and chief executive at Lehman Bros., he faced bitter criticism and rancor last fall for his seeming arrogance and negligence regarding the storied investment bank's exposure to bad...

In the coming years, many books will be written about the subprime fiasco -- most of them reported from the outside of the bubble looking in. If the authors look close enough, they might see Edmund L. Andrews staring back out at them. It will be hard for any chronicle of the bubble to match the...