Greekfire: your are sooo right.
And it wasn’t even very long ago. What is remarkable is how this crisis resembles the Long Term Capital Management moment of, I believe 1998. Then LTCM used extremely high leverage, a complicated and flawed economic model with innovative new tools, and even a Nobel-prize winning economist in their highest management. The whole structure was based on an assumption that success was nearly inevitable–only a 1 in 1000 probability of failure. Well, a black swan flew by, and they blew up.
I think their top guy was named Merriweather, and he recently was in control of a hedge fund that just collapsed. Basing this all on my flawed memory of news events, so if anyone can fill in the blanks please do.
