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The Impact of Debt
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Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital argues that to survive in business, you have to get through the low points, and the more leverage you carry (everything else being equal), the less likely you are to do so, reminding us to “never forget the six-foot-tall person who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average”.