Lehman Bros. - "Where vision gets built"

A.I.G. - "The Strength to be there"

IndyMac - "You can count on us"

- corporate slogans

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

- Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. President