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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Number one, a school district is a business. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. But 00:15:04 [Speaker Changed] It takes that long for the losses to get through to the securities.

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Transcript: Cass Sunstein

Barry Ritholtz

SUNSTEIN: Well, when you say directly, that’s true, except the number of meetings I had with President Reagan was zero. The number of mediated interactions I had with President Reagan was about five, and the amount of work that I did for the president was basically every day. That’s an insane number. SUNSTEIN: Yes.