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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast, where we host in-depth conversations on everything |
0:07.8 | real estate with the industry's biggest movers and shakers. I'm your host, Ken McElroy, joined by my |
0:13.9 | co-host, DeNeil. Let's get right into this episode. Today we're going to dive in to FTX, right? |
0:20.8 | Yeah. So that is a big story. They're |
0:23.1 | comparing FTX right now to Enron, you know, what happened with Enron. And also, you know, |
0:28.2 | it was a little bit like a Ponzi scheme in a way. And but we're also going to break down how it |
0:34.0 | relates to real estate and kind of some of the things going on in the real estate market |
0:37.9 | right now as well well I think there's a lot of it's interesting it's obviously not real estate but |
0:43.7 | you know there's a lot of people pulling on you know tugging on you to invest in things right |
0:49.5 | and I think that's really the bigger issue, right? Like there's lots of options. |
1:02.4 | And, you know, at the end of the day, you know, how did how did FTX go from 32 billion, |
1:08.2 | the 32 billion in February of 2022 to bankrupt in November? |
1:13.5 | So, you know, and there's a lot of really smart folks involved. |
1:21.9 | The U.S. attorneys were involved. The SEC, the commercial, the Federal Trading Commission. |
1:30.0 | You know, there's, it's interesting to me. Yeah, I think, you know, a lot of these other investments, |
1:33.9 | especially the SEC, they make sure that you're accredited and non-accredited, you know, |
1:39.7 | you know how all that works. And so now there's, there's a lot of people investing, let's say, |
1:47.2 | $1,000, $2,000, $5,000. And so that's, that door's been opened, as you know, for a while. |
1:52.8 | And this is, this is, by the way, this is not the first exchange commission or exchange that's gone down, right? |
1:55.5 | It's the biggest. |
1:57.0 | The biggest so far. |
1:58.2 | Yeah, it's the biggest so far. |
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