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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: That’s pretty safe.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Unlocking Growth By Asking For A Referral And Showing Value

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He’s a loss leader.” Leveraging Dinner Seminars And Third-Party Marketing Solutions To Rebuild A Client Base [50:11]. I mean, I got a plethora of awards, and by all accounts, I was on a meteoric rise to the top. I could have worked more hours, I could have been even more efficient and effective in what I was doing.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

Barry Ritholtz

And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. What accounts for the difference between the two in your experience working on the trading desk? It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. MIELLE: Yes. MIELLE: It is money.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. They buy tokens at a discount and resell them for big profits almost immediately.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay.