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In September 1998, fourteen of the world's largest banks were called into a single room — to figure out what to do about a private investment fund whose outstanding contracts totalled more than one trillion dollars.
This is the story of Long-Term Capital Management.
Founded in 1994 by John Meriwether — former vice chairman of Salomon Brothers — and staffed with some of the most credentialed financial minds ever assembled in one place, including two active Nobel Prize winners in economics, LTCM built a strategy based on rigorously tested mathematics, years of verified historical data, and genuine intellectual precision.
And then, in 1998, it almost took the global financial system with it.
In this video, you'll understand the full story — from the mechanism to the collapse to the rescue:

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – The Story of the Smartest People in the Room
00:20 – What was Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)?
02:13 – The Core Strategy: How the Fund Made Money
03:41 – The Power and Risk of Leverage
04:30 – The Scale of LTCM's Global Positions
05:58 – The Minsky Moment: Stability Creating Instability
06:56 – A Critical Decision: Returning Capital to Investors
09:06 – Nobel Prize Winners at the Helm: Scholes & Merton
10:37 – Crowded Trades and the Risk of Secrets Getting Out
14:02 – The Catalyst: Russia's 1998 Financial Crisis
16:48 – Counting the Losses: LTCM's Capital Evaporates
19:10 – The Secret Meeting at the New York Fed
22:22 – Lessons on Risk and the Boundaries of Data

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