New Markets
Friday, 7/3, 11:45 PM
When Genius Failed: How the LTCM Hedge Fund Nearly Broke the Financial System in 1998
- In 1998, a hedge fund run by Nobel Prize-winning economists and star traders lost almost everything in weeks and had to be rescued in a $3.6 billion bailout organized by the Federal Reserve.
- The collapse of Long-Term Capital Management is finance's great cautionary tale about brains, leverage and risk.