The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. And still growing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. And you know, so we looked at it very hard, decided not to bid.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. There would’ve been no bid. But for you guys, there’s no bid.  The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management , is below.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. But also it helped private equity do deals, right?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. And you know, you guys make your bids. GE, you make your bid.

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