September 12, 2016· 34 min

45: Why A Whistleblower Walked Away From Over $8 Million

Orality
Model
81%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,002 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(793 words)
M:28%
GuestEric Ben-Artzi(3,801 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic32%
basically, huge, absolutely
Engagement85%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, well
Repetition100%
what (49x), think (44x), know (44x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Jill Weisenthal, manag..., So, Joe, on last week's episod..., But what if I told you today t...
Sound Patterns42%
25 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging13%
could, rather, might
Passive Voice20%
being priced, was tasked, were called
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, information, volatility
Subordination5%
since, because, though
Sentence Length46%
Avg: 16.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style15%
509 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
monthly, carefully, glibly

Description

Could you walk away from a reward of over $8 million? The guest on our latest episode of the Odd Lots podcast did just that. Eric Ben-Artzi was a risk officer at Deutsche Bank who concluded that his bank was mis-marking the assets of part of his derivatives portfolio to a significant degree. When he couldn't get his colleagues to reprice the derivatives he called a hotline and blew the whistle, ultimately leading to a huge reward. In this episode he explains what he saw that was wrong and why he ultimately didn't take the money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.