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“I will guarantee you the focus of the Fed is not inflation, but is the recession.”

“Today, you can make loans at 12 to 15%, because nobody else is making them, and you're senior and you're secured, but I don't think private equity over the next three years is gonna make you 15, 20%, and if it does, that's great,”

“What you're finding is the larger firms, whether it's Aries, Oaktree, will go out and end up doing these bilateral deals, and they'll end up using the leverage from a bank To generate the return. So I think, I would tell you, 10 years ago, people didn't really…”

“However, the fact that they're not lending and banks aren't lending, that's going to be a year or two years, or maybe even three years.”

“In 1988, we were the largest distress fund in the world with one hundred and fifty million dollars.”

“I think you can lend at around a 20% loan to value, which you can't find anywhere.”

“And what I want to do is get involved in women's sports. I think that is going to grow exponentially.”

“They were paying 20 cents for claims, and under the plan of reorganization, we were paying them 60 cents for cash and 20 cents in stock.”

“I mean, we were up our first year 70%. So 70% on fifty million is Thirty-five million dollars on five hundred million, which is what they were doing. It was a lot of money. And the following year, we were up 60%.”

“It was about 5,000,010 million. But we doubled the money every year for about five years, and that's how we started Avenue.”