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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: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. What led to that approach?

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l. Yeah, exactly.

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