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The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, goes a quote attributed to John Maynard Keynes. But the market is the final arbiter of value. Lehman Brothers had $600 billion in assets when it filed for bankruptcy in 2008. But a lot of those assets had no liquid market. Lehman valued them based on esoteric models that were too optimistic in their assumptions, and they didn t hold up when the markets turned.

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