Saturday, January 8, 2011

ARTICLE: The Formula That Killed Wall Street


It became so deeply entrenched—and was making people so much money—that warnings about its limitations were largely ignored.  Then the model fell apart. Cracks started appearing early on, when financial markets began behaving in ways that users of Li's formula hadn't expected. The cracks became full-fledged canyons in 2008—when ruptures in the financial system's foundation swallowed up trillions of dollars and put the survival of the global banking system in serious peril.

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