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)申请破产的那天，英国《金融时报》头版刊登了一张时任美林(Merrill Lynch)首席执行官的约翰•塞恩(John Thain)的照片。在纽约联邦储备银行(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)进行了几个小时的商谈后，他正要坐进自己的汽车，看上去像一个凝视过万丈深渊的人。之后几天，世人看到更多银行家在与政策制定者开完危机会议后离开的照片，他们个个面如死灰，预示着可怕的事情即将来临。
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