On the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, the front page of the Financial Times carried a photograph of John Thain, the then chief executive of Merrill Lynch. He was getting into his car after hours of talks at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and looked like a man who had stared into the abyss. In the following days more pictures would emerge of bankers leaving crisis meetings with policymakers, their ashen faces a portent of the horror to come.
2008年9月，在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)申請破產的那天，英國《金融時報》頭版刊登了一張時任美林(Merrill Lynch)首席執行官的約翰?塞恩(John Thain)的照片。在紐約聯邦儲備銀行(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)進行了幾個小時的商談后，他正要坐進自己的汽車，看上去像一個凝視過萬丈深淵的人。之后幾天，世人看到更多銀行家在與政策制定者開完危機會議后離開的照片，他們個個面如死灰，預示著可怕的事情即將來臨。
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