Tag Archives | Amaranth
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Hedge Funds: Who’ll Take the Toxic Waste?

August 10, 2007

Long before Mark Twain stood on Wall Street and saw it was a “street with a river at one end and a graveyard at the other,” there has been financial manipulation and scams. During the Punic Wars against Carthage, businessmen offered to ship supplies to Rome’s army on condition the state insured their ships and [...]

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The Trend is Your Friend: Value-at-Risk and Amaranth

October 26, 2006

This week, Jeff Skilling received a well-deserved sentence of 24 years for his creativity at Enron. I wouldn’t take the sentence too seriously. Remember that Mike Milken—the Junk Bond King of the 1980s—was sentenced to ten years. After two years, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, petitioned for early release, received early release, and then [...]