Don’t knock Lehman — a deal is a deal, even if it’s private

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Don’t knock Lehman — a deal is a deal, even if it’s private

European securitisation specialists are peeved with Lehman Brothers for pushing big chunks of its residential and commercial mortgage hoard into the market at unrealistic prices. They should lighten up: Lehman may not be creating price transparency, but it is not making anything worse, and clearing its backlog may even help in the long run.

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