1. The big short: inside the doomsday machine
2. Whatever may have been the actual cause and effect, Lehman's failure had a traumatic impact on policymakers with respect to their ensuing decisions. There was now agreement as to the resolution of the Hobson's Choice between taxpayer-backed assistance to financial institutions and the potential of a catastrophic systemic failure in the absence of such assistance. The risk to the taxpayer and the other issues created by effective acknowledgment of TBTF were;H Rodgin See;Preventing the Fire Next Time: Too Big to Fail,1720
3. Of course, not everyone agrees with this narrative of the financial crisis. See, for example;Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry,2009