Shelfology Book Pairing

The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein

Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street's brightest and best, long-term capital management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions.

by Yanis Varoufakis