The Big Picture

MARCH 7, 2023

And so, a lot of my research was related to trying to uncover what were the underlying risk factors. And the place where I was looking for this risk factors was in the real economy. Is that the same default risk when stocks become very, very cheap, or is there something else at play there? VASSALOU: Pretty much.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

In The Next Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2006-2010 , published in January 2006, Dent doubled down on his earlier predictions for the 2000s and called for big gains through the rest of the decade. The DJIA did reach 35,000 in June 2021, but Dent had long been a permabear by then.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: Wind, solar, electrifying the economy, getting off of oil and gas, and it’s all kinds of companies engaged. In 2006, ’07, ’08, you saw the financial crisis. BARATTA: A growing economy, zero cost to capital, markets compounding at 15, 16, 17 percent. You saw it in the financial services sector. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And we brought them a plan that, you know, I think, was very similar to what the banks were doing at the time, which was providing financing to private equity-owned companies, huge area of growth in the economy. middle market is the third largest economy in the world. PE, at that point, was really just developing in the middle market.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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? 00:29:06 [Speaker Changed] So that was 2006. We now had the securities business.

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