More on Lehman's

Our growth in understanding what went on at Lehman's proceeds apace. Despite the criticism of financial transactions that occurred in London, it seems the accounting that is at issue occurred in the USA. It's said that because the Repo transactions involved exchanging assets worth more than $105 for every $100 of cash received SFAS 140 permitted them to be treated as sales because Lehman's wouldn't have had enough cash to buy them back again.