Welcome to a special episode of the PropGPOT.

Today, Professor David Urmac from the Stern School of Business joins us to discuss the

state of the markets, crypto, and the Twitter deal that is for now on hold.

It's caused confusion amongst investors and rattled Twitter's stock price.

This is the worst environment that I've seen since the dot com crash, even worse than

the great recession of 2008-2009.

Okay, so I don't think there's any debate.

We are in the middle of a crypto winter.

So David is a colleague, I wouldn't call his friends.

We like each other.

We're very collegial.

And he's someone who is just a gift.

The finance department in NYU is arguably, in most academics, we'll agree.

One of the best finance departments in the world.

And at NYU, they kind of rule the roost because they get just such outstanding faculty.

And David has been one of the few people that's been able to kind of tame these lions and

bring the management skill required to manage all of these enormously talented and very

confident and very large ego professors.

Is that fair?

Anyways, it's not easy to be a department chair at a university, much less the department

chair of kind of an iconic group as the finance department.

Anyway, the thing I really appreciate about David is that he is an optimist and even maybe

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