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a form of default.11 The ruble exchange rate collapse and the Russian default nearly led to a global economic crisis. A large hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), held a significant position in Russian government debt at the time of the default, as did several other Western hedge funds. What made LTCM
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, Arthur, 72 Lewis transition, 72 Li Keqiang (Prime Minister, China), 94 Lin, Justin (Chief Economist, World Bank), 87 lira (Italy), 42, 124, 299 n.6 Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), 139–40 lowflation, 254 Lucas, Robert, 233, 321 n.16 Lula da Silva, Luiz (President, Brazil), 143, 155 Lu Mai, 93 Lustig, Hanno, 216
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• The bursting of the real estate bubble in the late 1980s • The Mexican financial crisis of 1994 • The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 • The Long-Term Capital Management (a hedge fund) crisis of 1998 • The bursting of the dot.com bubble in 2001 In each case, it seemed initially that something really terrible
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of advanced mathematical techniques–poor risk management practices led to several spectacular failures in the financial industry during the last decade (e.g., Barings Bank, Long Term Capital Management, Orange County). The development of a coherent risk management practice requires quantitative risk measures that adequately reflect the vulnerabilities of a company. Examples of these
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crisis, when he told Congress he was “very distressed” by the failure of the market to discipline itself.) After the collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, Greenspan again insisted government should not tighten regulation of the banks that funded the hedge fund’s bets nor the derivatives that allowed
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underlying market structure, both technically and structurally,’ said Kovner in an interview in the late eighties. Meriwether went on to found the Greenwich, Connecticut-based Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1994. The hedge fund commanded more than $ 100 billion in assets at its peak. But LTCM’s bets on the financial market in
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often lead to mistakes that the least intelligent person in the world would not be capable of. Warren Buffett, when talking about the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, marvelled at “10 or 15 guys with an average IQ of maybe 170 getting themselves into a position where they can lose all their money
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were facing great danger. She referred to Alan Greenspan himself, who said one of the reasons the Federal Reserve Board had supported the bailout of Long-Term Capital Management (a large hedge fund) was that they were “afraid it would have profound worldwide economic repercussions.” A Wall Street Journal article by Michael Schroeder and
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berated Ms. Born for more than two hours in a fruitless effort to persuade her to stop her campaign.” Three months later, the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management led Leach to offer a grudging acknowledgment that Born wasn’t crazy. “You are welcome to claim some vindication,” he said at a congressional hearing
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going on in the OTC derivatives market, no one seemed to know how it worked, and serious problems—the near collapse of Bearings Bank and Long-Term Capital Management, which had $1.25 trillion worth of derivatives contracts with less than $4 billion in capital to support them—were not triggering any red flags
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, an amendment was added preventing the commission from taking any action on over-the-counter derivatives for six months. This occurred within a month after Long-Term Capital Management’s collapse!” In addition to Born, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets included Summers, Greenspan, Rubin, New York Federal Reserve president Bill McDonough
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don’t know the leverage of these things,” Greenberger said. “They’re playing with fire.” Fire, indeed. And after ignoring glaring warning signs like the Long-Term Capital Management collapse, those at the top who told regulators to look the other way would bear grave responsibility when the baffling derivatives casino would eventually break
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markets and could also lead to lawsuits. Born’s warnings continued to fall on deaf ears, the Journal reported, until September’s near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management LP, the hedge fund whose “huge exposure to derivatives threatened to rock already-shaky world financial markets. Suddenly, the maverick CFTC chairwoman looked less like
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of Fannie Mae Freddie Mac, GSEs, as private, profit-driven initiated by G. W. Bush, inherited by Obama of JPMorgan Chase, acquiring Washington Mutual of Long-Term Capital Management No Banker Left Behind program paybacks lacking Safire on secret meetings of Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner, Blankfein take-it-or-leave-it proposal by Paulson to
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Federal Reserve Bank in jurisdiction rivalry with Treasury Department with Robertson as lobbyist rules against regulatory barriers supports bailout of Long-Term Capital Management waives Citigroup compliance with Glass-Steagall Federal Reserve Bank of New York and AIG bailout as backdoor -Citigroup relations, bailout deal Friedman’s purchase of
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unseat Bush’s CFTC commissioner Gramm-Latta budget of 1981 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Grayson, Alan Great Depression Greenberger, Michael Greenspan, Alan on bailout of Long-Term Capital Management -Clinton agreement defines economic policy declares free markets as self-regulating on growth of OTC derivatives insists derivatives will self-regulate on irrational exuberance of
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study, stance profiled, praised, in media in territorial rivalry with Rubin GSEs. See Government sponsored enterprises Hedge funds and AIG Geithner’s reliance on managers Long-Term Capital Management Paulson’s description to G. W. Bush receiving banks’ toxic holdings regulations prevented by Summers Hendrickson, Jill M. Hillebrand, Gail Hirsh, Michael Housing affordability as
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campaign limited in distributing TARP funds with links to government officials prevent regulation of GSEs thwart Obama financial reform attempts write government rules Long, Chris Long-Term Capital Management Low-income consumers and borrowers blamed for banking debacle by conservatives and Clinton’s economic policy concerns over CFMA legislation CRA prevents mortgage redlining against
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a calculated bet that Galleon would have to dump stocks at fire-sale prices; then, as they did in 1998 when high-flying hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management got in trouble, they would hammer stocks they suspected were in Galleon’s portfolio, making money as the stocks tumbled amid Galleon’s indiscriminate selling
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leverage. Continental Illinois in 1984, the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the peso crisis of 1994, the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and of course the financial crisis of 2007–09—again and again the US government has intervened with emergency assistance to prop up
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–08 and subsequent global recession. Little was done to prevent them, even after the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98 and the related collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a US hedge fund that boasted two Nobel Prize-winning neo-liberal economists on its board. There was no political will to challenge the might
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, 2, 3, 4 Lloyds Banking Group 1, 2 lobbying 1, 2 Lobbying Act (2014) 1 London Debt Agreement (1953) 1 London Economic Conference (1933) 1 Long-Term Capital Management 1 ‘Luddites’ 1 Lyft 1, 2, 3 McKinsey Global Institute 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Macmillan, Harold 1 McNamara, Robert 1 Magna Carta (1215) 1
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