The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Raoul Pal and Max Levchin
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Lowenstein lays out Long-Term Capital Management’s ascent and collapse through scene-driven narrative, market timelines, and plain-language explanations of leverage and derivatives. Early chapters move briskly, introducing characters and the fund’s confident strategies; much of the middle dwells on technical breakdowns and repeated timeline recaps that can feel dense. Usefulness comes from the concrete account of how model certainty and interbank ties magnified losses; its main limitation is that technical digressions will test readers who prefer a lighter, less detail-heavy business narrative.
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This title tells the story of longterm capital management where a group of elite investors believe they can beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners. In fact, they create a trilliondollar hole in the international banking system....
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Business.
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