Peter Atwater on Consumers’ Decision-Making Process
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Peter Atwater, president of Financial Insyghts and an adjunct professor at William & Mary and the University of Delaware. He studies the impact of changing confidence on consumer decision-making and advises investors, businesses and policymakers. He coined the term “K-shaped recovery" to describe the pandemic's effects on the economy. Atwater previously ran JPMorgan’s asset-backed securities business and served in executive roles at First USA, Bank One and Juniper Financial.
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| 0:00.0 | Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film, |
| 0:07.8 | Killers of the Flower Moon. |
| 0:10.0 | The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders, |
| 0:14.1 | when white men poured into Osage County |
| 0:16.4 | and killed Osage people for their oil wealth. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media. |
| 0:26.8 | For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got |
| 0:32.1 | Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here. |
| 0:40.0 | Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | So how did they get it? |
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| 1:00.0 | This is Masters in Business with very This week on the podcast I have a special guest. This week on the |
| 1:08.6 | podcast I have a special guest his name is Peter At, and he is the author of several books most recently, |
| 1:17.0 | The Confidence Map, charting a Path from Chaos to Clarity, Peter has had a fascinating career in finance, |
| 1:24.0 | J.P. Morgan, Bank One, a few other large places where he got to see |
| 1:30.0 | how people's sentiment and confidence levels affected their decision-making |
| 1:36.1 | and this is everything from securitized credit cards to investing and |
| 1:41.1 | beyond. I found this to be an absolutely fascinating conversation. |
| 1:45.2 | We discussed everything from the shape of cars to January 6th and how each of the events that we talked about or milestones in society reflect the confidence |
| 1:59.8 | level and the degree of uncertainty that the population at large feels. |
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