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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Paul Vigna, a Wall Street Journal reporter who covers the cryptocurrency sector. His most recent book, co-authored with Michael J. Casey, is "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything." He and Casey also co-authored 2015's "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order."...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Grammy-winning guitarist Laurence Juber, whose playing fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s group Wings, Juber has released 25 solo albums. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Todd Harrison, a founding partner and chief investment officer at the hedge fund CB1 Capital, which focuses on cannabinoid-based solutions and biopharmaceutical applications and therapies. Prior to his work with CB1 Capital, Harrison spent almost three decades on Wall Street managing risk and researching financial market strategies. He was also...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dr. Raife Giovinazzo of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, a leader in applied behavioral finance. Giovinazzo conducts research using market insights to enhance investment processes at the firm. Prior to joining Fuller & Thaler, Dr. Giovinazzo was a researcher and co-portfolio manager with BlackRock's Scientific Active Equity group. He h...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews former senator George Mitchell, a leading figure in the Democratic Party who was credited with helping them win back the Senate majority in 1986.Mitchell was elected majority leader in 1989, a position he held until his retirement from the Senate in 1995. He was known among his colleagues in the Senate as an honest leader and skillful legislati...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Cal Turner Jr., who in 1965 began his career at the company founded by his father and grandfather in 1939: Dollar General. He succeeded his father as president in 1977 and as chairman in 1988. At the time of his retirement in 2003, Dollar General had grown into a New York Stock Exchange retailer with more than 6,000 stores in 27 states and annu...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Libby Cantrill, a managing director and head of public policy at PIMCO. In addition to coordinating the firm's response to policy issues and analyzing political events for the firm’s investment committee, she is a member of the firm’s Americas portfolio committee. She is also a founding member of PIMCO Parents, an initiative focused on supporti...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Yardeni, the president of Yardeni Research Inc., a provider of independent global investment strategy research. Dr. Yardeni previously served as chief investment strategist for Oak Associates; chief investment strategist and managing director of Prudential Equity Group; chief investment strategist for Deutsche Bank; and chief economist for C...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steve Murray, a managing partner at Revolution Growth who boasts more than 25 years of experience with technology businesses. He joined Revolution from SoftBank, where he worked with companies including Fitbit, BuzzFeed, E-Trade, Ziff Davis and Kabbage.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates LP, the world's largest exclusive short-selling investment firm. Throughout his investment career, Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; his celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron's as "the market call of...

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Benedict Evans, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz. A longtime mobile analyst, Evans has worked in the media and technology industries for 15 years. Evans has worked in strategy and business development for NBC Universal, Channel 4 and Orange, and previously worked as a sell-side equity analyst covering Europea...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Patty McCord, author of the recently released "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility." McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped create the Netflix Culture Deck. A veteran of Sun Microsystems, Borland and Seagate Technologies, she has also worked with small startups. McCord currently coaches and...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joel Greenblatt, co-chief investment officer and managing principal at Gotham Asset Management, LLC. He has also been a director of Pzena Investment Management Inc. since October 2007. An adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 1996, he teaches classes on value and special situation investing. He is the author of “You Can Be A Stock Ma...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Annie Duke, an expert in the science of decision-making and for decades one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the pres...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matthew Kadnar, a member of GMO’s asset allocation team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, he was an investment specialist and consultant relations manager at Putnam Investments. Previously, he served as in-house counsel for LPL Financial Services and as a senior associate at Melick & Porter LLP. Kadnar has a B.S. from Boston College and a J.D. fr...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the legendary tennis player Serena Williams. Williams has won 23 singles titles in women's Grand Slam tournaments -- just one behind the all-time leader, Margaret Court -- as well as 23 doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles. Along with her individual successes, Serena has teamed up with her sister Venus to win a series of doubles titles. She...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews David Enrich, finance editor at the New York Times and author of "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History." (That scam, of course, was the Libor scandal.) Previously the financial enterprise editor at the Wall Street Journal, Enrich has received numerou...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Kathleen Fisher, head of wealth and investment strategies for AllianceBernstein L.P. In this role, she leads the team responsible for developing and communicating asset allocation advice and investment strategies for high-net-worth clients. Since 2013, she has also overseen research on investment planning and wealth transfer issues facing high-net...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Donald, who serves as managing director and head of emerging markets at Lazard Asset Management, and serves as portfolio manager/analyst on the emerging markets equity team. Since joining Lazard in 1996, he has been instrumental in developing and coordinating its emerging-markets activities. Previously, he was a portfolio manager with Mercur...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday was 19 years old when he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power.” He went on to become the director of marketing for American Apparel. His creative agency, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER and Complex, as well as many prominent b...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews innovation expert Luis Perez-Breva, who directs MIT’s flagship hands-on innovation program -- the MIT Innovation Teams Program -- jointly operated by the schools of engineering and management. An entrepreneur and a Ph. D., he has taught innovation as a skill to professionals and students worldwide, co-led the Innovation Pillar of the MIT Skoltech...

Decrypted returns on March 6th with a brand new season. Here's a sneak peek of what's in store. We'll be releasing new episodes every Tuesday starting next week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Pimco’s Jerome Schneider, who is managing director of the Newport Beach office and head of short-term portfolio management and funding. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year (U.S.) for 2015. Prior to joining Pimco in 2008, Schneider was a senior managing director with Bear Stearns. He has 22 years of investment experience and...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Kathryn Minshew, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Muse. Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on The TODAY Show and CNN, and contributes on career and entrepreneurship to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. She was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media and Inc.’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech. Before founding...

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jack Devine, a CIA veteran and founding partner and president of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Devine was involved with sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, rece...