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Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty ImagesToday on Planet Money:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan tells Congress he was shocked to discover a flaw in the markets. The TED spread stopped falling. And one investor lost a whole lot of money.
-- Listener Aimee Ennis asks if it's true that hedge funds are the next great calamity. That's what Nouriel Roubini has been saying.
-- Economist Elisa Parisi, of Roubini's RGE Monitor, explains that hedge funds are downright contagious.
-- Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group reveals the world's troubles were a long time coming.
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