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Michael Milken

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Sep 25, 2026

David LinHOST
29:47
Yeah.
Arthur LafferGUEST
29:47
This is the whole Mike Milken thing in the '80s when we had that huge change in taxes in eight- in the '86 Tax Act, and Mike Milken used junk bonds to, to, to, to fund the growth in the US economy.
Arthur LafferGUEST
29:59
It was one of the most miraculous instruments ever developed was junk bonds.
Arthur LafferGUEST
30:04
Now, the people may not have been so cool, but the junk bonds really helped America grow and become the prom- preeminent nation on the planet.
Marc BertrandHOST
19:18
There's nothing worth running around here for.
Marc BertrandHOST
19:21
Remember Milken used to stone her?
Scott ZolakHOST
19:23
It's not.
Marc BertrandHOST
19:24
Whatever it
Thom HartmannHOST
10:50
And in 1983, Ronald Reagan issued an order, an executive order, telling the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to essentially stop enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act and the Antitrust Act in 1956.
Thom HartmannHOST
11:05
And the result of that was what people will remember who remember the 80s, remember as the M&A merger, the Michael Milken.
Thom HartmannHOST
11:11
You know, they made movies about it where suddenly these masters of the universe were crushing companies together.
Thom HartmannHOST
11:17
Jack Welch and Chainsaw Al Dunlap and all these guys taking dozens of small companies and crushing them together into one giant company.
Gary BuechlerHOST
78:55
But you know what Agatha's famous for? Sucking dick? No.
Gary BuechlerHOST
79:00
Mark, was it Milken going, is this the gayest Marvel ever? Originally, Greenlit in 2022 with Matt Corman and Chris Ord as the head writers who were fired because they wanted to make it a courtroom drama like She-Hulk.
Gary BuechlerHOST
79:22
Then there was the WGA and Film Actors Guild Strike, which gave Kevin Feige the excuse to scrap the production and salvage it.
Gary BuechlerHOST
79:30
The problem is, I don't even know if they approached Stephen DeKnight or Drew Goddard who were involved.
MikeHOST
1:52
And we still see the negative consequences today.
JulieHOST
1:56
Well, H.L. Milken said that there was just no way the government wouldn't declare hobgoblins everywhere they could.
JulieHOST
2:06
That they would stir up a fear in the public anytime they could.
JulieHOST
2:10
Although, I have to admit, I'm kind of with the Terminator.
Anthony ScaramucciGUEST
14:46
Hey, Nick, the best thing- This is
Nick GillespieHOST
14:47
when he's squeezing Michael Milken through-
Anthony ScaramucciGUEST
14:51
Yeah, after.
Anthony ScaramucciGUEST
14:52
Yeah, he did the- Borderline tactics, yeah.
Tony RobbinsGUEST
42:22
This is why the Trump accounts are so valuable.
Tony RobbinsGUEST
42:24
You know, Michael Milken and these guys helped push to this out.
Tony RobbinsGUEST
42:27
You can take your kid if they're born from '25 to '28 during this administration, $1,000 is given to them.
Tony RobbinsGUEST
42:33
You can now, y- even your employer can donate $2,500 a year to them.
Tom KalinskeGUEST
21:38
And then I went to, um, as I mentioned, I, we bought Matchbox toys out of receivership, and then I went to Sega and, um, where Ed and I worked together.
Tom KalinskeGUEST
21:48
But I didn't mention that after I left Sega, I worked with, uh, Mike Milken and Larry Ellison, who invested in me, and we were gonna go after the education market, both cradle to, cradle to grave.
Tom KalinskeGUEST
22:00
Literally little kids education, um, uh, first and second and third grade education, high school education, college education, adult education.
Tom KalinskeGUEST
22:09
And, uh, we did 30 different education companies, and Ed worked with me at LeapFrog.
Robin WigglesworthGUEST
27:42
But the f- the kind of focus, the power has shifted to the buy side, to the markets, sort of the market-based finance.
Robin WigglesworthGUEST
27:50
So now, you know, you know, a Mike Milken wouldn't emerge today.
Robin WigglesworthGUEST
27:56
You wouldn't have somebody sitting in a bank who'd emerge as the focal point of a market.
Robin WigglesworthGUEST
28:00
It's always now somebody on, at a big investment shop.
Doug ScottHOST
4:43
You said your parents, what did your mom do?
Morgan SimonGUEST
4:46
My mother went from being a kindergarten teacher to managing educational content for Mike Milken and became a pretty major investor that she led Knowledge Kids Universe.
Morgan SimonGUEST
5:00
And from her, I learned a lot of the professional skills.
Morgan SimonGUEST
5:04
of even just hearing her on the phone and how she interacted with different people and how she also had to take on many domains that she hadn't necessarily known or grown up with, which I think is the story of a lot of women in finance.

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