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Milken: Historical bond data showed credit risk premiums exceeded actual default risk
“What everyone said about credit was wrong, and there was a book by Bradford Hittman on long-term Corporate bond and investor experience, and the riskiest credits were perceived as the best, and the best credits were perceived as the worst. Whether you were the…”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 12:01 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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Milken: Moderna dosed first human 63 days after virus sequencing
“It was only seven weeks, 63 days, between the sequencing of the DNA of the virus and the first human being that Moderna gave the vaccine to”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 51:24 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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Milken: Focused ultrasound is approved for 50 to 60 diseases
“But it's now been approved for 50 or 60 diseases. I have a good friend who had terrible tremors all these years. He went in. When he walked out, he had no tremors. So there's enormous potential. It's been approved for Parkinson's and other diseases.”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 1:04:03 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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Milken: Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate has fallen to 2%
“A woman today has a two percent chance of passing AIDS on to her child. Down from 95% 20 years ago.”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 1:05:14 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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Milken: China now has the world's largest diabetic population
“We can see what's happened in China, where almost 40 years ago, no one had diabetes, and now they have the most people with diabetes in the world.”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 1:10:04 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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