“No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.”

American journalist and author

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He founded and edits DealBook, the financial news service published by The New York Times. Sorkin also wrote the bestseller Too Big to Fail, co-produced its HBO Films adaptation, and helped create the Showtime series Billions.