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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

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there.

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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: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. Or who has this profit?

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