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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Live-recorded interview in a casual chat style, with hosts bantering before diving into Q&A with the guest.
- The Key Players:
- Guest: Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs (2006-2018), famous for navigating the 2008 financial crisis, expanding Goldman globally, and his sharp-witted Twitter presence; here promoting his new memoir.
- Hosts: Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast—playful chemistry shines in their opening confession about a past failed joke roasted by Lloyd.
- The Vibe: Fun and witty with self-deprecating humor, mixed with educational depth on finance, risks, and markets—nervous excitement from hosts meets Lloyd's dry, insightful banter.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Lloyd Blankfein**
- 2 (04:24) **Lloyd's Post-Retirement Trading Habits**
- 3 (06:35) **Why No Politics After Goldman**
- 4 (07:57) **Resisting the Urge to Tweet**
- 5 (10:20) **Globalization Cycles and Lloyd's Career**
- 6 (17:18) **Crisis Response and Banking System Role**
- 7 (19:14) **2008 Financial Crisis Lessons**
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Show Notes
Lloyd Blankfein was CEO of Goldman Sachs for more than a decade, riding the trading boom to the top of the storied investment bank and steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. In his new memoir, Streetwise: Getting To and Through Goldman Sachs, he writes about his journey from public housing in Brooklyn to the pinnacle of Wall Street. So what's he up to now? And how does he see markets and finance today? In this episode, we talk about deglobalization and Wall Street, the threats AI and tech pose to investment banking, risk management in private credit, and rich people's attitudes towards taxes. Plus, Lloyd shares some of what he left out of the book and he explains why he doesn't tweet more.
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