The fall of LTCM redux

by | Jan 7, 2008


Amidst the general hedge fund-collapsery all around us, now’s the time to refresh your memory about the unhappy case of Long Term Capital Management, which imploded in 1999.  And where better to do so than with Michael Lewis’s masterly account of it in the New York Times…

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