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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot Com. The

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Speaker 1: boardroom drama continues. Golden Sachs said that David Solomon will

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Speaker 1: become the sole president of the bank, elevating him over

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Speaker 1: Harvey Schwartz as the eventual successor to Chief Executive Officer

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Speaker 1: Lloyd blank Find. Of course, as follows at reports on

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Speaker 1: Friday by The Wall Street Journal that Lloyd blank Find

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Speaker 1: was planning to step down as CEO as early as

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Speaker 1: this year. Later in the year, Eric Shasker joins us

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Speaker 1: now he's editor at lar for Bloomberg. Eric, I want

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Speaker 1: to start with denials by Lloyd blank Find that this

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Speaker 1: news came from him over the weekend and he was

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Speaker 1: sort of saying, it's sort of like Huckleberry Finn watching

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Speaker 1: his eulogy. Why the pushback If Goldman Sachs is just

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Speaker 1: going to fan the flames with this announcement today. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's be careful. What Lloyd said was that, as you

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Speaker 1: as you phrase it, that the news did not come

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Speaker 1: from him, which is to say he wasn't the source

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Speaker 1: of the Wall Street Journal report on Friday. But that's all.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I would call that a denial. Um.

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Speaker 1: What it does tell us is that this did not

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Speaker 1: go according to script, and that Goldman Sachs to a

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Speaker 1: certain degree clearly wasn't in charge of the cadence of events.

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Speaker 1: They might not have proceeded exactly according to Goldman's plan,

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Speaker 1: but nevertheless, here we are. Goldman Weather by hook or

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Speaker 1: by Crook was forced to say that David Solomon is

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Speaker 1: the soul sole president excuse me, and the likely successor

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Speaker 1: to Lloyd blank find a CEO if and when that happens.

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Speaker 1: But they decided this a while ago. It wasn't like

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Speaker 1: this happened over the weekend a short while, but it

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Speaker 1: was not on Friday. My understanding, having recently spoken when

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Speaker 1: person UH with direct knowledge of the situation, is that

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Speaker 1: Lloyd Blank find met with the rest of the board

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Speaker 1: on February twenty one, regularly scheduled board meeting, at which

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Speaker 1: point he recommended that David Solomon be the sole president

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Speaker 1: of the firm and be his chosen successor, and the

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Speaker 1: board endorsed that recommendation. So shortly thereafter we can presume

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Speaker 1: Harvey Schwartz was informed of this decision, and then it

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Speaker 1: was up to Harvey to decide what his next move

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Speaker 1: was going to be. Most people under those circumstances on

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Speaker 1: Wall Street choose to leave the firm. There's not much

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Speaker 1: point hanging around the hoop, right if you're not going

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Speaker 1: to be the centerman. And uh, the problem here is

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Speaker 1: that February when he first is what almost three weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Goldman could have done this more elegantly by doing it

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Speaker 1: a little faster. In the end, someone presumably in the boardroom,

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Speaker 1: although we may never know, decided to have a conversation

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Speaker 1: the very least, that's what that conversation resulted in a

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Speaker 1: pace that Goldman itself perhaps had not signed onto and

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Speaker 1: was not entirely in control of. Eric shares A Goldman sacks.

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Speaker 1: They're up about one and a half percent right now.

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Speaker 1: Market seems pleased at least by this news, however, it

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Speaker 1: has been disseminated. What can you tell us about Mr

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Speaker 1: Solomon in terms of what the future of the bank

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Speaker 1: or indeed the financial I should just say it's not

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Speaker 1: they also had now the online lending platform Marcus. They've

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Speaker 1: are those are still very very small parts of Sacks. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's still principally an advisory firm, right that does principally

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Speaker 1: can I tell you about David Solomon? He is a

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Speaker 1: leverage finance banker. That's how he started his career at Drexel.

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Speaker 1: the reasons why David Solomon was chosen over Harvey Schwartz.

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Speaker 1: He's a better client guy. Even though Harvey Schwartz was

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Speaker 1: gets He's Look, I've spent lots of time with David Solomon.

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Speaker 1: When I say lots enough time with David Solomon to

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Speaker 1: He isn't as emotive as David is. These are my

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Speaker 1: on one meetings with major investors um They like the

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Speaker 1: fact that he has been pushing for diversity at the

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Speaker 1: is the firm's future, as it is at any firm.

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Speaker 1: back to your point, him, Goldman is going to have

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Speaker 1: to light a fire into this consumer finance platform Marcus

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Speaker 1: that they have online. They're going to have to make

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Speaker 1: to build in crypto. They're going to have to rebuild

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Speaker 1: not because it's broken, but it isn't performing as well

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Speaker 1: on a relative basis as Morgan Stanley's, a JP Morgan's,

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Speaker 1: to do, and the board appears to have decided that

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Speaker 1: David is a better guy to get that done than

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Speaker 1: Harvey Schwartz or together, so David's the sole president in

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Speaker 1: line to succeed Lloyd Blank find We still don't know

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Speaker 1: when that's going to happen, and if we do, you're

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Speaker 1: to tell us. Thanks very much. Eric Shatzker, editor at

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Speaker 1: large for Bloomberg News giving us all the details about

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Speaker 1: Goldman sacks what we want to visit now with Stephen DISSANCTUS.

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Speaker 1: He is managing director for small cap and mid cap

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Speaker 1: stocks at Jeffreys. He's managing director there, and I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you very much for being here in our

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Speaker 1: eleven three oh studios God mornings, for being here. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: make the case for UH small and mid cap stocks,

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Speaker 1: we are in the business cycle. Great, So you know

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Speaker 1: Earnings growth in this kind of environment, when you're gonna

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Speaker 1: small MidCap versus large cap style, more second rotation, A

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Speaker 1: that probably didn't happen last year. Let's talk about some

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Speaker 1: is more from a positioning standpoint. I like companies that

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Speaker 1: do have overseas exposure. However, I've not found a good

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a library, an institution, right, absolutely, the

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Speaker 1: where they had it, and how it was sold on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: been and then you don't have to spend two million

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Speaker 1: to be a rare book collector. You can spend ten dollars.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of fascinating collections that you can

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Speaker 1: tremendous fun and education as well. You can learn as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us. Jonathan Hill

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Speaker 1: is the founder and owner of Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

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Speaker 1: and they did just complete their New York Antiquarian Book Fair,

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Speaker 1: uh at the Park Avenue Armory. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. And I will say, Pim, when

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Speaker 1: I think about children's books in particular, I think about

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Speaker 1: it's important, yeah, and it can also be quite remunerative

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Speaker 1: if you collect them carefully and collect what you love.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg P and L podcast.

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at pim Fox. I'm on Twitter at Lisa Abramo.

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