In this video interview, Jeffrey Aronson, co-founder of private equity firm Centerbridge Partners, talks to Telis Demos, FT’s New York markets reporter, about topics ranging from leveraging to sovereign debt to long/short positions.

Part 1:
Aronson discusses his outlook for the US corporate loan default rate, a possible return to over-leveraging by Wall Street and worries of sovereign debt default.

Click here or on the image below for Part 1 of the interview.

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Part 2:
Aronson plays long/short, putting bets on news from the credit markets to Greece and the iPad to Chrysler.

Click here to view Part 2 of the interview.

Source: Financial Times (here and here), March 1, 2010.

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