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The Widowmaker Trade

The Widowmaker trade, that Japanese government bond trade because everyone has always been betting against Japanese government bonds and has always failed as a result. And then also the Russian defaults. So here we're at, and at that time we had long-term capital as well. It was a very, very interesting time in macro with a lot of sort of breaks and disruptions in the market. A lot of central bank and government policy decisions that were being made that were very instrumental in the markets.

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