Michael Milken
20 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2020 by Joel Greenblatt · said 168 times in 21 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ted Seides (79), Richard Sandler (45), Joel Greenblatt (9), Josh Friedman (8), Todd Boehly (5), Jordi Visser (5), John Barber (5), Katie O'Reilly (3)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425)
- Ron Kantowitz – Direct Lending's Evolution and Invesco's Edge (EP.457)
- Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- Hugh MacArthur – Private Equity's Challenges and Opportunities (EP.453)
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2024 112 mentions in 4 episodes 28 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2020 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2019 9 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Michael Milken, oldest first
Nov 23, 2020
Six broken deals in 1986 slashed Gotham's returns from 80% to 30%
“I had in my portfolio five or six merger deals that were going on, whether I had a piece of a security or I had some iteration of it, and I thought that was diversity. In my portfolio, but it turned out it was all the same bet. You know, is the financing going…”
Jul 25, 2022 positive
Feb 26, 2024 neutral
Feb 26, 2024
Milken: Most people hold strong opinions without conducting factual research
“A lot of times you find in education, that your teachers aren't necessarily current on facts, and so you can surprise them, and you know, at a very young age, I had concluded that adults had strong opinions, but very few of them ever did research, and if you a…”
Feb 26, 2024 neutral
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Feb 26, 2024
Feb 26, 2024 positive
Milken: Financial firms must make research, not sales, their foundation
“And so my view as the foundation of the firm was research, and we needed to invert the pyramid where research is the foundation of financial investing and advising, then trading, and then if you can trade it and buy it, you can work on selling it.”
Feb 26, 2024
Feb 26, 2024
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Sandler: Milken's sentencing judge told parole commission no further wrongdoing was proven
“The judge who sentenced Mike, who held the Fatico hearing, wrote a letter to the parole commission on Mike's behalf, indicating that she held the Fatico hearing, and she did not believe that any further wrongdoing other than what he pled to could be shown, eve…”
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Sandler: Judge assessed market damage from Michael Milken's violations at zero
“Interesting enough, when the judge assessed the economic damage to the marketplace from everything Michael pled to, included on the three counts that related to Bosque, that the total economic effect of these violations was zero. Not one penny was lost.”
Mar 4, 2024 neutral
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Sandler: Wall Street establishment targeted Milken after Drexel enabled hostile takeovers
“So Mike was an attractive target because he really wasn't liked by a lot of people in the business round table and in the established firms. He was getting a lot of publicity. He was very successful. And so people complained to the SEC, they complained to Cong…”
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Sandler: Prosecutors threatened to destroy Princeton Newport unless it aided Milken prosecution
“The prosecutors at the time had told the principals and the lawyers for Princeton Newport that they're going to run over them. They're going to destroy them unless they help them against Michael Milken and another Case that was under investigation at the time,…”
Mar 4, 2024
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Sandler: Drexel collapsed after funding unsold inventory with commercial paper
“What had happened is, to prove they could still get deals done, they were taking a lot of securities that they couldn't sell into inventory, and they were financing it by issuing commercial paper in the commercial paper market. So in financial parlance, they w…”
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Sandler: Milken pled to violations never previously criminally prosecuted
“We actually found things to plead to, none of which had ever been subject to criminal prosecution before, many of which hadn't probably even been enforced as regulatory violations before, but we found things that he could admit to.”