SeekerBlog

Brad deLong via Dan Drezner:

Just after New York Fed President Tim Geithner gives a speech about systemic risk and hedge funds, Amaranth blows up following a trading strategy that either had no method at all to it or was a failed attempt to corner next spring’s natural gas market.

Yet there is not a sign of disturbance to the markets. Amaranth’s investors have lost what is now said to be $6 billion. Some other people have the $6 billion–if they can, in turn, unwind their positions. But the system cruises on with no worries about liquidity or solvency and no changes in risk premiums.

Reassuring, I think.