When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, (Paperback)

from jeff

This book is not an easy read. It's a great book, mind-blowing story, but it takes concentration to follow and get through. All that said, just incredible the amount of money amassed by this small ...

from Carmenere

This book is aptly named as it delivers just what the title implies. Young John Meriwether began his career as a high school math teacher. After only one year of teaching he enrolled in the Univers...

from kukulaj

The main story here runs 1993 to 1998, from the start of LTCM to its collapse. There are lots of bits and pieces to the story. There is the arrogant confidence of the partners. There's how they bam...

from rivkat

While a better title might be "When Hubris Failed," Lowenstein still tells an engaging and comprehensible story of fools who thought they were too smart to go broke, and turned out to be too big to...

from shawnd

I remember this to be captivating. I am not especially interested in hedge funds or Wall Street. I was interested in a current non-fiction about business and especially some dramatic turn of busine...