When Genius Failed
Author: Roger Lowenstein
"When Genius Failed" by Roger Lowenstein chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund led by Nobel Prize-winning economists whose collapse in the late 1990s nearly triggered a global financial crisis, offering a gripping exploration of risk, arrogance, and the limits of mathematical models in finance.
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