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what news came out on sept 15th? wasn't that a month before the stocks started crashing. and why do money markets have a 250k guarantee when bank accounts have 100k?

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According to one comment in the original post, it was Lehman Brother's filing for bankruptcy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers

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