NYT: How the Giants of Finance Shrank, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis
$947 Billion – Market capitalization of 29 of the biggest financial firms on September 11, 2009: “Since the stock markets peak in October 2007, Wall Streets landscape has been permanently altered. Lehman Brothers, gone. Bear Stearns, gone. Merrill Lynch, gone. Main Streets landscape has also changed. Wachovia, National City, Washington Mutual and Countrywide, all gone. …