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"I always make good bets.
It's easier at the micro level to find examples where it works, but at the macro level, especially in a crisis, you can find people who make good bets".
Sure-footed takeover candidates also make good bets; these comprise about one-third of the Excelsior portfolio.
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To grasp what is at stake, recall that the $182 billion taxpayer bailout of American International Group during the financial crisis was essentially a bailout of the global financial system, undertaken to make good on derivatives bets gone spectacularly wrong.
What interested me most -- and, I suspect, what will interest the public as well -- is that one of these payoffs happened because you essentially refused to make good on a golf bet.
He went on to describe how Softbank was there for the "beginning of the PC internet," which he invested in via Yahoo when it only had 16 employees; and then how that shifted into mobile — an area where Softbank is still trying to make good on an earlier big bet, a stake in Sprint that it's now trying to increase.
The things regulators have yet to finish include imposing limits on the size of bets investors can make using credit default swaps and other exotic financial instruments, and also requiring investors to maintain sufficient reserves to make good on all of those bets.
Last week, the Roe Conn Show with Richard Roeper on WLS-AM radio asked for listeners to make good on the governor's bet for him.
Taconic Investment Partners made good money betting on the Manhattan neighborhood of West Chelsea a decade ago, where it owns the building where Google now has its New York offices.
While there are never any guarantees in the stock market, these firms' strong fundamentals and solid track records make them good bets to keep those payouts coming.
"I was pleasantly surprised not just because he made good on the bet, but that he didn't use it as an excuse to hang out".
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