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Read The BullZeke FauxThe 16th episode of Read the Bull is a fascinating interview with Zeke Faux, a Bloomberg investigative reporter and author of the best selling book, "Number Go Up."Cryptocurrency is ubiquitous. You can't escape the endless news coverage on the price of Crypto, or hearing your college friends talks about that one friend who made a killing buying DOGE coin. The slang associated with it seems juvenile, but people are making real money in it, and the its value is zooming once again on the heels of Donald Trump's victory as investors anticipate a regulatory-friendly regime. But...2024-11-2658 minRead The BullFall 2024 Book Preview with Lee MunsonThe 15th episode of Read the Bull is the Fall 2024 Book Preview. Portfolio Wealth CIO Lee Munson joins host Stefan Prelog for an in-depth discussion about timeless investing classics, finance beach reads and a new slate books to watch for this fall. Lee talks to Stefan about the recent market volatility and how he prepares clients for moments like this. Lee's clients are concerned about the 2024 Presidential election and what the potential outcomes means for their portfolios. In addition to managing his clients' portfolios, Lee's been busy reading and he dives in to the books he...2024-08-2243 minRead The BullScott FearonThe 14th episode of Read the Bull is an unfiltered discussion with Scott Fearon, author of "Dead Companies Walking: How a Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places," published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. If you want to know how a veteran long/short hedge fund manager approaches investing, this is the interview for you. Scott started Crown Advisors Management, a long/short equity hedge fund, in 1990. He manages around $180 million and invests in small and mid-size public companies that have around a $200 - $300 million market cap. He invests on the long side in companies he finds th...2024-06-2751 minRead The BullPatricia Walsh ChadwickThe 13th episode of Read the Bull is a fascinating conversation with Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of "Breaking Glass, Tales from the Witch of Wall Street." Patricia enjoyed a 30-year career in finance and held roles as a research analyst, portfolio manager, director of research, and investment strategist.The book details Patricia's career, which began at a time where the majority of women in finance held administrative roles. Patricia explains that she had a long-held secret from her colleagues that only came to light when she published her memoir, "Little Sister" in 2019. Patricia was forced to survive o...2024-05-2953 minRead The BullRob CopelandThe 12th episode of Read the Bull is an engrossing interview with New York Times Finance reporter Rob Copeland discussing his book "The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend." Taped in front of live audience at the historic Troutbeck Inn, Rob and host Stefan Prelog have a lively conversation about Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates. Rob started covering Bridgewater and Dalio more than a decade ago. Rob noted that it was Dalio's meteoric rise outside the world of hedge funds and investing that interested him in writing about him. H...2024-04-2454 minRead The BullJared DillianJared Dillian was Read The Bull's first guest and he's back again in our latest episode. Jared's been busy since his first appearance - publishing not one, but two books - a book of essays titled "Those Bastards" and a personal finance guide - "No Worries: How to Live a Stress Free Financial Life." Jared tells Stefan Prelog he hosted a syndicated radio show where he fielded a lot of personal finance questions. He decided to dome some research on the genre and found that most of the books were crap. Jared explains that most personal finance boo...2024-03-1953 minRead The BullGregory ZuckermanThe 10th episode of Read The Bull is an in-depth conversation with WSJ's Gregory Zuckerman. Greg is an investigative reporter and a 27-year veteran of the paper who writes about business and investing topics. Greg is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award—the highest honor in business journalism.Greg's written six books, including "A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine," "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution," "The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters," and “The G...2024-01-2347 minRead The BullAnthony ScaramucciThe ninth episode of Read The Bull is a lively conversation with Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Managing Partner, SkyBridge, and founder and chairman of SALT. Scaramucci discusses his colorful Wall Street career and details how he's distilled his many experiences into his six books including his first, "Goodbye Gordon Gekko," a nod to Michael Douglas' villainous character in the iconic film 1987 "Wall Street" and the 2010 sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." Scaramucci describes "Goodbye Gordon Gekko" as a right-of-passage in which he details his early career and lessons learned along the way, from his stints at Goldman Sac...2023-09-0654 minRead The BullTodd FinkleThe eighth episode of Read The Bull is an enlightening conversation about one of the world's greatest investors - Warren Buffet. Todd A. Finkle, Ph.D., is the Pigott Professor of Entrepreneurship at Gonzaga who's written the insightful book "Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur." Todd brings his 33 years of teaching to the book and distills Buffett's entrepreneurial voyage. Todd talks about his own entrepreneurial approach to getting the book published. He discusses how he took his time writing it with the goal of making it the most important writing of his career. Todd's originally from Omaha and went to sch...2023-08-0352 minRead The BullJon HilsenrathThe seventh episode of Read The Bull is a topical and wide-ranging conversation with WSJ senior writer Jon Hilsenrath about his book Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval. Hilsenrath is the perfect person to write a book about Yellen. He's written about economics and finance since 1997, and he's covered Yellen, her predecessors at the U.S. Federal Reserve and many of the economists that appear in the book. Yellen is the first woman to chair the US Federal Reserve and the first female Treasury Secretary. Jon points out that she also has the distinct honor o...2023-04-1952 minRead The BullMary ChildsThe sixth episode of Read The Bull is an engaging discussion with NPR Planet Money's Mary Childs about her book The Bond King, an in-depth look at Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) co-founder Bill Gross. Mary details Gross' rise as the world's top bond investor. Bond investing was once a sleepy domain of insurance companies where people literally clipped coupons, but Mary explains how it evolved and exploded in the 80s and 90s with PIMCO and Gross leading the charge. Mary covered Gross and PIMCO while she was a reporter at Bloomberg, and she talks to host Stefan Prelog...2023-03-1750 minRead The BullBill FalloonThe fifth episode of Read the Bull is our first one of 2023. Host Stefan Prelog highlights a few titles from our 23 books for 2023 preview list. Among the featured titles are books by bond investor Martin Fridson, Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson, Stanford history professor Jennifer Burns, filmmaker and DePaul professor Kelly Richmond Pope and New York Times reporter Rob Copeland. Later in the episode, Stefan talks with Wiley & Sons Executive Editor Bill Falloon, who's also a former journalist and an author himself. Bill's has had a long and distinguished career at Wiley and he discusses a f...2023-02-2543 minRead The BullGary WeissThe fourth episode of Read the Bull is a fascinating conversation with investigative journalist and author Gary Weiss about his latest book "Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real Life Story of Crazy Eddie," which was published by Hachette in August. Anyone who grew up in the New York metropolitan area in the 1970s and 80s knew Crazy Eddie. The retail electronics chain started humbly in Brooklyn in 1971 with its roots in the Syrian Jewish community, but there was nothing humble about its eponymous owner Eddie Antar or its in-your-face advertising campaign led by spokesperson and former WPIX disc jockey Jerry Ca...2022-12-0849 minRead The BullLee MunsonThe third episode of Read the Bull is a no-holds-barred conversation with Lee Munson, author of "Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game." The book came out in 2011, but Stefan and Lee talk about how it's as relevant today as when it was published. Lee and Stefan talk about the evolution as well as the gimmick-ifcation of vehicles like ETFs, and how many strategies that Wall Street sells distract investors from their goals. Lee explains how Wall Street is really like one big craps table and why that's not necessarily a bad thing. Today Lee is one of t...2022-11-101h 05Read The BullDominique MielleThe second episode of Read The Bull is an enlightening conversation with Dominique Mielle, author of "Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds." Dominique is a hedge fund veteran who worked at distressed investing specialist Canyon Capital. Her career spanned 20 years and in the interview she touches on some her highlights as well as some of her missteps, including the time she invested in WorldCom bonds right before their accounting scandal. Dominique and host Stefan Prelog talk about the life cycle of companies and the various stages you can invest in a business. Dominique al...2022-10-0545 min
Read The BullJared DillianThe premiere episode of Read The Bull is an insightful conversation with Jared Dillian, author of "Street Freak," "All the Evil of This World" and the investing newsletter "The Daily Dirtnap." Jared and host Stefan Prelog look back at the book's publication and reminisce about the anti-Wall Street sentiment that provided a problematic backdrop for the book's promotion. Jared discusses the rigors of being an ETF trader at Lehman Brothers, why Dick Fuld is not evil and why quitting Lehman was one the best things that ever happened to him. Jared opens up about his battle with Bipolar disorder...2022-09-0938 min