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The Unwind of Morgan Stanley
I love this term, the central bank of volatility. I make the point on the firm's foray into non-core strategies. So it's a bond arb house, but they start getting into risk arbitrage and then also into equity volatility. Day after day after day, they were losing beyond what any of their computed calculations in these models based on past experience. They really believed that the market was acting irash,. at one point I said that Merryweather was like a band waiting to embrace his lover if only he can land his plane in a storm.