When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- ISBN-10
- 0375758259
- ISBN-13
- 9780375758256
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Author
- Roger Lowenstein
Description
A distinguished financial journalist chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management, a hundred-billion-dollar hedge fund that had to be rescued from collapse by the controversial Federal Reserve buyout, and the implications of the high-stakes financial manipulatons. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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