June 1, 2020· 41 min

Meet the Man Who Blew the Whistle on LIBOR

Richard Robb

Orality

Model

83%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,174 words)

M:28%

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,234 words)

M:28%

GuestRichard Robb(4,007 words)

M:92%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic23%

basically, very, extremely

Engagement51%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, like, so

Repetition100%

they (87x), rate (58x), libor (57x)

Parallelism81%

And I'm Joe Wiesenthal...., So, Joe, we're, we're finally ..., So just as an introduction, le...

Sound Patterns59%

41 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases3%

i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

may, quite, maybe

Passive Voice17%

be priced, are supposed, was created

Abstract Nouns20%

investment, community, business

Subordination7%

while, because, although

Sentence Length37%

Avg: 14.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity45%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers4%

according to

Impersonal Style49%

357 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style58%

apply, finally, basically

Description

Welcome to the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a look at life after LIBOR, the interest rate tied to more than $350 trillion worth of financial assets. On the first episode in our LIBOR series, we speak with Richard Robb, a former interest rate trader who was one of the first to warn about potential manipulation of the Libor rate to which trillions of dollars worth of financial assets are tied. Robb, who’s now CEO of the hedge fund Christofferson, Robb & Company and teaches at Columbia University, warned of problems in the interest rate as early as the mid-1990s. He also had a front-row seat to witness the benchmark’s downfall after the 2008 financial crisis. He talks about what went wrong. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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