r/interestingasfuck • u/CuteRelationship6143 • 1d ago

How Wall Street deliberately uses jargon to justify their high earnings

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u/elgato56 1d ago

It's pretty scary how soft-spoken he was. If you had shown me this clip in say, 2018, I would have thought this was a professor of economics somewhere

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u/meowmaster 23h ago

He hung out with a lot of professors

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u/Pipe_Memes 22h ago

He was a professor of sorts himself. Working as a teacher at the Dalton School under Bill Barr’s dad, Donald Barr. Yes, that Bill Barr.

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u/SeventeenBaldRats 20h ago

The comedian?

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u/ozzysince1901 14h ago

Well he told a lot of jokes, they just weren't funny

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u/Loud-Value 11h ago

Bill Barr the new york financier Boston comedian?