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To: Chispas who wrote (70505)	10/26/2007 9:05:19 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 116555

Mish, you might want to read this. Fascinating article on the role quants played in the August meltdown from Technology Review. Too long to post but title and link are below; This summer, as a meltdown in the subprime credit market spilled over into other markets, all eyes were on the mathematically trained financial engineers known as "quants." Who are these guys? technologyreview.com