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RenTech was founded years before LTCM and is still going strong. It's not repetition of history, they've outlasted or are older than most of the trading desks ever. They're basically a business providing a service to other market participants and executing that incredibly well, it's quite unlike the arbitrage LTCM was involved with.

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And Bernie Madoff founded his firm two decades before Ren Tech, hell at one point he was the Chairman of NASDAQ.

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That was a scam. Are you accusing RenTech of being dangerously overextended like LTCM, or a scam like Madoff? Considering the Medallion fund takes no outsider capital, that would be quite a strange way to run a Ponzi scheme.