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{{a|glossary|[[File:Nosferatu.jpg|450px|center|thumb|Mr. [[Nosferatu]] discussing passive investment strategies with a client yesterday]]}}Known to followers of the [[Good Man]] as the [[Dark Lord of the Swaps]], [[Nosferatu]] was a Romanian [[broker/dealer]], headquartered high in the Carpathian mountains, not far from Făgăraș.  
{{a|myth|[[File:Nosferatu.jpg|450px|center|thumb|Mr. [[Nosferatu]] discussing passive investment strategies with a client yesterday]]}}Known to followers of the [[Good Man]] as the [[Dark Lord of the Swaps]], [[Nosferatu]] was a Romanian [[broker/dealer]], headquartered high in the Carpathian mountains, not far from Făgăraș.  


He — or ''it'' — was an  [[intermediate broker]] for [[Lehman]] brothers and [[MF Global]]. It had a long and magnificent history, first clearing Transylvanian [[Futures|futures]] for the Medicis and Rothschilds, only to meet a sticky end when [[tulip mania]] finally broke in 1637. But, miraculously, it lived on, in boxes of sacred earth, only to wreak a similar hell on undercapitalised American brokers in 2008.  
He — or ''it'' — was an  [[intermediate broker]] for [[Lehman]] brothers and [[MF Global]]. It had a long and magnificent history, first clearing Transylvanian [[Futures|futures]] for the Medicis and Rothschilds, only to meet a sticky end when [[tulip mania]] finally broke in 1637. But, miraculously, it lived on, in boxes of sacred earth, only to wreak a similar hell on undercapitalised American brokers in 2008.