When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Matt Melvin Students decide which high school

Students decide which high school they will attend

And in Wheelan’s trademark style

and systematic way

and the guy who lied about his identity—Edward King’s son

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Matt Melvin Students decide which high schoolJohn Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best and the brainiest bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph. D. certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. For two years,