We died from a liquidity crisis. People don't understand, but our banking system had a really time in te 19 thirties. Tis no lender of last resort at scrunched in a very short period of time. If you look what happened afterwards, and roll the clock fover to diht. Golman taxes a bank. Morgan stanley's a bank. Marrow lynch merged into a bank. Ther're still our independent broker dealers, but a lot less all the big eyes realize, i got to be a bank to not get knocked over by the next one in 20 year, one in a hundred year.
Steven Begleiter is a Managing Director of Flexpoint Ford. Prior to joining Flexpoint Ford in 2008, Steve was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co. He is also a professional Poker player who claimed the 6th place in World Series of Poker 2009, winning $1.59M Show Notes:
- Culture at Bear Stearns
- The liquidity crisis that ended Bear Stearns
- Evolution of Financial Services
- Importance of having a ‘thesis’ for your investments
- The Rise of Private Equity
- Where is PE headed to?
- Investing lessons from a Poker career
- Role of luck in life and Poker
- Psychology at the poker table
- How micro-expressions can give your game away
- Historical perspective to the Russia-Ukraine crisis
- Importance of reading military history