Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Saturday, July 6th, and I know you're probably enjoying a great weekend.

Today we are airing the second part of our interview with Barry Ritholz.

He is really a legend in the industry.

He's written blogs.

He's been on the air in various financial outlets.

He has been someone who I have really admired for so long.

Today we're going to focus on what was Barry doing in the lead up to the financial crisis.

As always, if you've got a question, a comment about something Barry talks about in this interview or anytime,

just go to our website Jill on money.com and click the contact us button will get you on the air.

So today, part two of our interview with Barry Ritholz.

Get me from 2002 to 2008. What's happening in those years of expansion, recovery from the

dot-com blooming bus? What's happening in the life of dairy so

market makes a low October 2 and and March of 3 and I'm writing about this

saying hey you know anytime you see I'm a buyer any time a stock market like the US

stock market is cut in half NASDAQ down 82% pizza trough you you want to

own this and so I'm I'm trying to explain why I'm doing research and using here's where law school is really helpful.

Lawyers are generalists. You have to be able to argue every case you don't know which

part of even if you're in you know white collar crime

mhm a million subjects in white collar crime

yeah so you have to learn the area learn history, be able to talk about it intelligently, and with finance

you have to be able to talk about the math of it a little bit.

And my secret sauce was I brought in a little of the behavioral finance to it.

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