| This is a MUST READ for anyone who really wants to get a solid understanding of how we got to where we are, as rapidly as we got here. (From the good folks of Wired Magazine one of my favorite publications. | Here's what turned your 401(K) into a "201(K)": |  | "In the mid-'80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits. Their methods for minting money worked brilliantly... until one of them devastated the global economy". |
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