The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

The claims piled onto the already struggling stock, which had previously been a longtime holding of Warren Buffett's conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Buffett examines a management team's character and trustworthiness when investing. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

The typical investment firm seems to be east coast or West coast. Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. But the brokerage houses, you know, Morgan and Merrill and the investment banks, multi-trillion dollars. And I think a big part of it is the, we’ve got the right leaders in place.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. And we looked more like an industrial conglomerate than — RITHOLTZ: That’s where I was going to go. LAYTON: — like a private equity firm.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2024

From the very first day that I joined, I turned down an offer from Hillary Clinton at the time, which, you know, my father’s a risk averse immigrant, so his two pieces of advice for to me were to work at Lehman Brothers for investment banking, good call, and to work for Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama. That was a heyday.

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