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John W.B. Rich, welcome to T.C.

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So great that you could join us. Yeah, hey everyone. Thank you for having me. Yes, that's wonderful. We're thrilled. We're thrilled to have you. This is your worldwide podcast premiere and you run one of the most successful FinTwit accounts because of your sage investment

history and thoughts going forward.

So we thought it would be great for our audience to hear from the man himself, but as is the tradition on our show.

Why don't you tell us who John W. B. Rich is where were you born?

Sketch the arc of your career and talk us through to how you found yourself to where you are today.

Yeah, absolutely. So, let's see, I was born in 1912, grew up in small. 1912.

Grew up in a small little town in Connecticut, called Stamford. Hated my parents.

They didn't do anything for me, except, you know know my dad helped launch my career. He gave me a loan to start out my career but anyway I'll fast forward through my childhood and you guys know 1929 the 1929 crash do you remember that yeah

I wasn't around for it but I've read about it okay well my dad and I we invented short selling during that, so you can imagine we made a killing during that.

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