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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Matt Melvin and the guy who liedJohn 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,