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🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the American Greed Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacy Kie Kich. |
0:07.0 | In this episode of American Greed, convicted stockbroker Jordan Belfort, aka the wolf of Wall Street. |
0:20.0 | He is funny, he's colorful, he can be charming as long as he stay 10 feet away with your wallet and your back pocket. |
0:25.6 | I had a gift to get up before the crowd and sell and manipulate. |
0:30.3 | And I could have used it for good or I could have used it for evil. |
0:32.4 | I used it for evil. I used it for evil. |
0:33.0 | When Hollywood turned his life of sex, drugs, and crime into a blockbuster, |
0:38.0 | his victims feel cheated again. |
0:41.0 | Too many people walk out of a movie and think they have seen the story. |
0:46.0 | And it leaves out significant parts of the story, not the least of which is |
0:50.0 | 1500 people that lost real money. |
0:52.0 | He was about as close as you would come |
0:55.5 | to being a financial serial killer. It's late October 1987. 25 year old Jordan Belfort prepares for his first day as a stockbroker at the prestigious Wall Street firm |
1:19.0 | L.F. Rothschild. |
1:21.0 | The enthusiastic young man recently passed his Series 7 exam and is eager to begin a career in the world |
1:28.8 | of high finance, as he tells the NBC's Jane Wells in a 2007 interview. |
1:35.0 | My first day I walk in and I watched people in their mid to late 20s |
1:39.0 | making half a million a million dollars a year in this raging bull market of the mid 80s. |
1:43.4 | Belfort is a born salesman. |
1:46.4 | The son of two accountants from Bayside, Queens, he ran his own meat and seafood delivery |
1:51.3 | business before making the leak to Wall Street. |
1:54.9 | This guy was driven from the get-go. |
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