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divorced from the details

[...] What tends to happen in financial markets is, bad things happen when you really divorce the people who take the risk from the people who understand the risk. What happened is that that distance in the subprime market just increased and increased and increased. I mean, it started out that you …

—p.16 Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager Primetime for Subprime (5) missing author
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there are other black boxes out there

[...] we had a loss over the course of three days that was like a ten-sigma event, meaning, you know, it should never happen based on the statistical models that underlie it. Because the model doesn’t assume that everybody else is trading the same model as you are. So that’s sort of like a meta-mod…

—p.14 Primetime for Subprime (5) missing author
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exiguity

it would be impossible because I had no background, or I had a very exiguous background in finance

—p.9 Primetime for Subprime (5) missing author
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