With the paperwork expected to follow as much as days later, there is the potential for a breakdown approaching the scale of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund debacle, which all but crushed Wall Street in 1998.

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Both parties used to exercise restraint in using these, because of the potential for what we have now: total partisan breakdown.

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Even here, however, I had to get quite insistent with potential lenders before some would send along anything close to a cost breakdown.

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