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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. We saw that concentrated exposure, right, with the — the — the staff that came out, that 85 percent of the world’s wheat production. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. Both people are kicking money in.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also.