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I'm here with Lloyd Blankfine. Lloyd, thanks for joining me on the podcast.

Oh, thanks for having me, Sam.

So you've written a memoir, Streetwise, which is incredibly fun to read and an education

for anyone who doesn't know much about finance.

And I'm just, I'm going to ask you some questions about it.

I mean, I'm especially I'm interested to understand the lessons we should have drawn from

the 2007, 2008 financial crisis, which you steered Goldman Sachs through, um, which was, uh, high stress and high stakes and, um,

an achievement for which you were both celebrated and vilified. So, I mean, you, you, you have a

very interesting story because you came up from, I mean, you're, you're a Jew living in the

projects. I mean, this is not a story that's often told about Jews these days, so you're coming from

basically nothing.

We forgot to socially mobilize.

Yeah, yeah.

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