Mr Fuld will be particularly annoyed at having "substituted capital for wits" in building up a $55 billion book of leveraged loans, says Peter Solomon, a former Lehman vice-chairman (and a big admirer).
This used to be a mere battle of wits.
Later, we see Peter in a field hospital in Austria, losing his wits with shellshock.
The piece, entitled Hunger Hurts, was written when Jack Monroe was at her wits' end: no money, the food cupboard bare, the housing benefit cheque turning up, inexplicably, £100 short.
If Miliband's team had their wits about them, they wouldn't just be talking about living standards but talking about all the ways this isn't a recovery at all: not in GDP per head, not in business investment or trade.
Great batsmen are able to keep their wits about them, even when the game appears to be going catastrophically.
Although she is often brought near to the edge of survival and is deported to Auschwitz, occasional acts of kindness and her own quick wits support her on her journey.
Gatland said this week that he had noticed a change in Ireland's style since Joe Schmidt, who enjoyed considerable success at Leinster, took over in the summer, and while the men in green will face the physical threat of Wales's three-quarters head on, they will look to exploit space when in possession and live off their wits.
(We covered the intervention by Professor Sloan - a columnist for The Australian, on the blog earlier this week. I believe she called childcare workers dim wits).
Eva Acs, an agronomist who has run the thriving organic farm for 22 years, is at her wits' end.
