After the failure of the computer models, the “market posse” assessed the degree of risk that existed for Bear Stearns’s counterparties, and it turned out to be quite accurate. This September 2008 article in the RMA Journal by Ed Blount examines what went wrong during the financial crisis, and how market participants were misled and let down by traditional methods of assessing risk.
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