When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Author: Roger Lowenstein
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein chronicles the dramatic rise and catastrophic fall of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund led by Nobel Prize-winning economists that nearly collapsed the global financial system in the late 1990s due to excessive leverage and risk-taking.
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