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From Wikipedia, here is a description of some of the activities surrounding the collapse of LTCM (Long-Term Capital Management in 1998: At the beginning of 1998, the firm had equity of $4.7 billion and had borrowed over $124.5 billion with assets of around $129 billion, for a debt-to-equity ratio of over 25 to 1.[17] It had off-balance sheet derivative positions …