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Mahr: LTCM Would Not Have Failed Without 50x Leverage
“If long-term capital management hadn't been running a fifty-x leveraged strategy, They wouldn't have ended up in the trouble that they ended up with.”
IG credit spreads are at their tightest levels since the late 1990s
“Spreads are super tight. They're tighter now than they were before the GFC in the investment grade world, which is mind blowing. Spreads tightened the tightest level since pre-long-term capital management in the late nineties.”