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A Map of the Information Network that Failed

Posted on October 07, 2008

Earlier this week I wrote a piece describing the current capital market collapse as a cascading network failure of the information network that we call the capital market. The piece was based upon work in Chapter 7 of my new book, Lessons from a Road Warrior. I have received lots of comments and emails about the idea from readers.Today there is a graphic in the New York Times Deal Book that describes what they refer to as The Rescue Squad. It traces all of the connections between the major players involved in the series of rescue efforts since the markets began to unravel a year ago. You can ...

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