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Name: When Genius Failed
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Author: Roger Lowenstein

📘 When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

The book follows John Meriwether, a former Salomon Brothers partner who assembled a top‑tier bond‑arbitrage team of Ph.D. scholars. After a scandal in 1991, Meriwether and his loyalists waited for a comeback. In 1993 he founded Long‑Term Capital Management, proposing a hedge fund that would use sophisticated arbitrage and massive leverage to generate unprecedented profits. The narrative tracks the firm’s ambitious strategies, the formal and informal decision‑making that fueled its growth, and the eventual collapse that became a benchmark case study for financial risk and crisis.

First publish date: September 12, 2000

Genre: Business & Economics/Finance

Authors: Roger Lowenstein

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