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The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems with over-optimistic assumptions and to feed them oversimplified data. This kept them from sounding the alarm early enough.

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The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems with over-optimistic assumptions and to feed them oversimplified data. This kept them from sounding the alarm early enough.

How Wall Street lied to its computers