When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein

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       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2001

      Copyright © Roger Lowenstein 2001

      Roger Lowenstein asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9781841155043

       Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780007375790 Version: 2018-07-31

       Dedication

       To Maury Lasky and Jane Ruth Mairs

       Epigraph

      Past may be prologue, but which past?

      –HENRY HU

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Introduction

       THE RISE OF LONG-TERM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

1 Meriwether

2 Hedge Fund

3 On the Run

       4 Dear Investors

       5 Tug-of-War

       6 A Nobel Prize

       THE FALL OF LONG-TERM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

       7 Bank of Volatility

       8 The Fall

       9 The Human Factor

       10 At the Fed

       Epilogue

       Notes

       Index

       Author’s Note and Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Other Works

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

      The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is perched in a gray sandstone slab in the heart of Wall Street. Though a city landmark building constructed in 1924, the bank is a muted, almost unseen presence among its lively, entrepreneurial neighbors. The area is dotted with discount stores and luncheonettes—and, almost everywhere, brokerage firms and banks. The Fed’s immediate neighbors include a shoe repair stand and a teriyaki house, and also Chase Manhattan Bank; J. P. Morgan is a few blocks away. A bit farther to the west, Merrill Lynch, the people’s brokerage, gazes at the Hudson River, across which lie the rest of America and most of Merrill’s customers. The bank skyscrapers project an open, accommodative air, but the Fed building, a Florentine Renaissance showpiece, is distinctly forbidding. Its arched windows are encased in metal grille, and its main entrance, on Liberty Street, is guarded by a row of black cast-iron sentries.

      The New York Fed is only a spoke, though the most important spoke, СКАЧАТЬ