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Hail Mary: William L Silber on The Power of Nothing to Lose with Tobias Carlisle on The Acquirers Podcast

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 7 a.m.

William L. Silber is a Senior Advisor with Cornerstone Research and was a chaired professor at The Stern School of Business, New York University, most recently as the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics (2002-2019) and before that as the Abraham Gitlow Professor of Economics and Finance (1990-2002)

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His latest book, "The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business," (Morrow / Harper, 2021) shows how presidents, generals, dictators, and ordinary people have used the power of downside protection to alter history. A simple strategy, similar to the Hail Mary pass in football, encourages risky ventures that favor the \u2018deciders\u2019 but hurts innocent bystanders, causing collateral damage that requires attention.

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ABOUT THE PODCAST

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Hi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I've launched a new podcast called The Acquirers Podcast.

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ABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLE

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Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer\u2019s Multiple\xae, and Acquirers Funds\xae.

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He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon\u2019s Business and Finance The Acquirer\u2019s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World\u2019s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, bus