Ep. 712: Bradley Hope Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Bradley Hope, a finance and malfeasance reporter for the Wall Street Journal and his latest book is “Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World.” Bradley is a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting and the TRACE International Award for Investigative Reporting.
The topic is his book Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Money laundering
- Goldman Sachs
- Banking compliance
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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is Bradley Hope. |
| 0:36.0 | He is a Wall Street Journal reporter. |
| 0:38.6 | He also happens to be the author of Billion Dollar Whale, the man who fooled Wall Street, |
| 0:44.8 | Hollywood, and the world. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, this is cool stuff. |
| 0:49.5 | We're talking right there with Den of Thieves, those kinds of Wall Street books where you just say, |
| 0:56.0 | how could this happen? Well, what happened exactly? One guy essentially stole $5 billion |
| 1:04.2 | with the help of Goldman Sachs and boom. Now where's the money? What an amazing tale, something we just can't even expect |
| 1:15.7 | would happen in the last few years. We thought all of this stuff stopped. How could you fool |
| 1:23.4 | governments? How could you fool Wall Street? How could you get away with it? Bradley Hope and |
| 1:29.8 | his co-author Tom Wright get right into the heart of the matter. What an amazing story. |
| 1:37.0 | As a fellow author, I'm a little bit jealous. How much fun would it be to get under the |
| 1:43.2 | covers to figure this out and these guys figured it out? |
| 1:47.7 | I hope you enjoy my conversation with Bradley Hope. |
| 1:59.0 | You know, I was thinking, Bradley, most Americans really don't have a feeling for, let's say, |
| 2:04.9 | a place like Malaysia, but something on the map. But this movie that came out in the last |
| 2:10.6 | handful of years, The Wolf of Wall Street, this classic scene in there where DiCaprio is |
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