February 22, 2016· 23 min

Episode 16: Making Money When Everyone Else is Losing Theirs

Orality
Model
67%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,276 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,276 words)
M:28%
GuestAlastair Marsh(2,507 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic50%
literally, completely, absolutely
Engagement38%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
they (111x), know (26x), what (25x)
Parallelism90%
But, since she's out, we're do..., So, essentially, the opposite ..., So, without further ado, I wan...
Sound Patterns60%
26 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases14%
you know what, i mean, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging13%
might, relatively, quite
Passive Voice13%
was taken, were tied, were considered
Abstract Nouns12%
investment, recommendation, edition
Subordination12%
since, while, whilst
Sentence Length34%
Avg: 13.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity45%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style62%
163 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, fortunately

Description

Everybody knows by now that a handful of hedge funders made a fortune by betting against housing before the market crashed back in 2008. But, people who bought at the bottom, when everyone else was panicking, also did extremely well. In the latest episode of Odd Lots we speak with Bloomberg Alastair Marsh, who discovered two traders who won big time by buying the most toxic assets in the world during the depths of the panic in early 2009. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.