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When Genius Failed, best selling author Roger Lowenstein captures
the roller coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management in gripping
detail. Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in
history. Led by the notoriously successful bond arbitrageur John
Meriwether, the firm boasted a partnership that included two Nobel
Prize- winning economists and a cadre of Wall Street's and academia's
elite traders. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall
Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered
catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on
Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself.
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The New Era of Wealth, top-rated economist Brian Wesbury shows
investors how to use the five key trends that created the stock
market boom in the 1990s to sidestep risk and build long-term
personal wealth in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and
commodities.
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