Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jeremy Grantham, who co-founded the global asset management firm GMO and serves as its chief investment strategist. Prior to founding GMO, Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management, where he recommended commercial indexing; he began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. He and his wife Hannelore have established the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Rick Wilson, a political strategist and one of the first (and most prominent) "Never Trump" Republicans. Wilson, who has decades of experience producing campaign ads, writes a regular column for The Daily Beast and frequently appears as a TV news analyst. He's the author of "Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever." 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ray Dalio, the founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Principles: Life and Work." His newest book, "Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises," was published this month.

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ralph Scamardella, chef and partner at Tao Group, which operates some of the most profitable restaurants in the country. Before joining Tao, Scamardella demonstrated his culinary skills at The Plaza Hotel’s French restaurant and at Polo under legendary chef Daniel Boulud. Scamardella studied at New York City’s Technology Institute, where he learned to master the business of hotel and restaurant management while expanding his culinary repertoire.

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews American cartoonist Scott Adams, who captured the dysfunction of the modern workplace in his long-running comic strip "Dilbert." Adams has also written several works of satire, commentary and business analysis, including "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life" and "Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter." 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ray Dalio, who is founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio has been a global macro investor for more than 45 years, having started Bridgewater out of a two-bedroom apartment in New York City in 1975. He is known for the practical yet unconventional theory of economics he spells out in his video series "How the Economic Machine Works," and is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Principles: Life and Work." His newest book, "Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises," was published this month. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dr. Robert Cialdini, professor emeritus of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University and an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance and negotiation. His book "Influence: Science and Practice" has sold 3 million copies in more than 30 languages; his most recent work, "Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade," is a Wall Street Journal and a New York Times bestseller. Cialdini is also the CEO and president of Influence at Work, which provides training and certification.  

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jim Millstein, the founder and CEO of Millstein & Co. and chief restructuring officer at the U.S. Treasury from 2009 through 2011. In that capacity, he oversaw the department’s investment in and oversight of the financial sector following the 2008 financial crisis. From July 2000 to April 2009, he served as managing director and global co-head of corporate restructuring at Lazard. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Barbara E. Kahn, author of 2018’s “The Shopping Revolution: How Successful Retailers Win Customers in an Era of Endless Disruption.” Kahn is a professor of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and has served two terms as the director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Rex Sorgatz, the author of 2018’s “The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery.” His reflections on the intersection of media, technology and culture have appeared in New York and Wired magazines, among others. 

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