When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
Last read August 31, 2019
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and no market, no matter how liquid, can accommodate all potential sellers when the day of reckoning comes.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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long-term thinking is a luxury not always available to the highly leveraged; they may not survive that long.
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The next time a Merton proposes an elegant model to manage risks and foretell odds, the next time a computer with a perfect memory of the past is said to quantify risks in the future, investors should run—and quickly—the other way.
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