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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

In America, he was vice chair of President Bush’s Council on Financial Literacy and sat on a similar council on financial capability for President Obama. He has written five books with more coming. That’s my favorite one. That’s my story of my failures, not my successes.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

It turns out their business model is a little similar to the way the banking industry has managed to capture a lot of regulators and continue to operate fairly freely without this sort of regulation and capital requirements and equity requirements that would make banking safer. You have a lot of degrees. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk.

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Transcript: Tom Wagner, Knighthead Capital

The Big Picture

They run about $10 billion across all sorts of really fascinating investing lines. With no further ado, my discussion with Knighthead Capital’s Tom Wagner. You start out spending five years at Ernst & Young doing hedge fund accounting. RITHOLTZ: And that’s two and twenty, right? I appreciate being here.

Investing 130
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. Well, I spent five years working for David and learned just a tremendous amount. RITHOLTZ: That’s a hell of a list. RITHOLTZ: Oh no, it’s much worse. SEIDES: It’s lower. SEIDES: It’s lower. It’s lower.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

Eric Balchunas is someone I’ve known from both the ETF industry and Bloomberg for, I don’t know, a decade or two, and we hang out in a lot of the same circles. RITHOLTZ: Right, I texted you and said, “Come down to five. RITHOLTZ: So you were covering derivatives in the 90’s, but not the 2000’s leading up to the ’08-’09 crisis.

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Transcript: Robyn Grew

The Big Picture

This is a fascinating conversation about business growth and leadership and management and how to run a team. I — I found this to just be a fascinating masterclass in running a giant financial organization. RITHOLTZ: You’re five foot nothing, right? GREW: I’m five foot nothing. And it is slightly surreal.

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