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These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").
The Times of London, noting that Haider's result "has thrown the country's politics into turmoil, frightened investors and brought closer to power the leader of the largest and most radical far-right party in Europe," said Monday in an editorial that it is a disaster for Social Democrat Chancellor Viktor Klima, an embarrassment for Austria, and "a triumph for a man whose political prejudices have shattered the country's cosy and often corrupt consensus."
The review article by Fleiss [ 30 ] is reasonably accessible for a non-mathematician who is not frightened of formulas.
But, he's quoted, a liquidation of Long-Term would have made investors too frightened to take risks, and risk-taking is "a necessary condition for wealth creation."