This September will see two important financial crisis anniversaries. Not only will it be ten years since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, but also twenty years since the near-collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Amid all the reforms to the global banking system and trading infrastructure since 2008, it’s worth asking the question: could an outsized hedge fund threaten the financial system today in the same way that LTCM did in 1998?
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