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Gregory Zuckerman

Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal · 1 appearance on the record.

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A three-time Gerald Loeb Award winner, he reports on major financial institutions, hedge funds, and prominent business figures for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including The Man Who Solved the Market and The Greatest Trade Ever.

35statements → 27claims → 12claims resolved → 92%fully supported → 3.89/5average certainty → 1.86/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

11 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 15 not checkable as stated how the 27 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

27 assertions · 7 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 27 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 12 are resolved, and 15 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Gregory argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
John Paulson Knew Nothing About Mortgages Before Profiting Off the Meltdown
“John Paulson was unlikely. He was a merger arb. He's the one that made the most money on the mortgage meltdown. The guy didn't know anything about mortgages. He owned a home or two over the years”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 28:25 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Gregory Zuckerman on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Gregory Zuckerman said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
John Paulson Made $20 Billion Across 2007 and 2008
“Yeah, he made twenty billion dollars over 2007 and 2008”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 11:18 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Early Simons-Baum Algorithm Cornered the Maine Potato Market
“And they developed the system, an automated type system, early trading model, and it cornered the market for Maine potatoes.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 17:11 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Jim Simons Hired Alan Greenspan as an Early Consultant
“He hired this young economist as a consultant named Alan Greenspan, and he had his red phone that went off when news broke and they would try to beat everybody else in trading kind of thing.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 17:29 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jim Simons Gave Renaissance Team a Six-Month Ultimatum on Equities
“Simon's almost pulled the plug. He gave his guys six months, and he goes, guys, that's it. We're gonna pull the plug. I'll give you six more months.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 23:47 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Renaissance Holds 4,000 to 5,000 Long and Short Equity Positions
“So today, and it's not so dissimilar from what it was back then, today it's about four or 5000 stocks that are long, four or 5000 stocks that are short.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 25:54 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Medallion Fund Has Been Employee-Only Since Around 2003
“Medallion has been really only Jim Simons and his employees since around 2003. They kicked the last people out.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 30:21 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Roughly 100 of Renaissance's 300 Employees Hold PhDs
“What I mean by that is they're not just PhDs, and yet they have a hundred out of like 300 people there, their PhDs. These are people that are groundbreaking scientists, physicists, astronomers.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 39:07 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Quantitative Traders Account for 31% of Market Trading
“So, 31% of quant trading today is from quantitative traders, and it's almost like the dumb money has left the table, the poker table, and you're going up against the sophisticated guys.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 42:34 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Jim Simons Is the Largest Funder of Autism Research
“He is the biggest funder of autism research”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 51:39 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Renaissance Employees Sign 30-Page Non-Disclosure Agreements
“Listen, they signed thirty-page non-disclosures internally, so it's weird for him to be talking to me”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 57:27 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
Assertion Supported
Jim Simons Is Funding Scientific Research Investigating the Big Bang
“He's also trying to figure out whether the big bang took place. And so I'm interested in that too. We talk about that. They've got this big operation going on in Chile where they're trying to figure that kind of stuff out.”
Gregory Zuckerman Jan 6, 2020 ▶ 59:17 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119) Jan 6, 2020 48m
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