The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks.

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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. That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. There’s leverage.

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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. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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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. The investment banks were stuck with syndications that they had committed to, to place in the markets with price caps on the, on the coupons. It, it, it was huge price declines.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts.

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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. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker.

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