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Things Change

The Better Letter

GE jumped over Exxon to the top spot as the oil company (which had bought Mobil in 1998 in what was then the biggest merger ever) stayed at number two. Chevron, which had been known as Standard Oil of California, returned to the top ten at number eight. There are about four times that number now. IBM, at nine, made it back, too.

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Twenty Years Of Blogging! Part 1

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Back in 2004, there were very few bloggers, it was a new thing. My blog was the Forbes blog of the year for 2004 in less than three full months of blogging which should tell you how thin it was back then. The way that number went up though, I don't know if it was a real number or not. I mentioned Seeking Alpha above.

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How And Why To Give Away Your Money In 2024

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

While no significant decreases in charitable giving were found, CCS did find that “in more recent presidential election years, it appears that political giving is making up an increasingly larger percentage of all giving during the months surrounding the election, hovering around 12% in the fall of 2016 compared to around 8% in the fall of 2004.”

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How Americans Save

The Irrelevant Investor

trillion in assets. They anticipate that by 2023 80% of all assets at Vanguard will be in an automatic investment program. These numbers are pretty encouraging. 18,500, $24,500 for people 50 or older) The chart below shows overall asset allocation in these plans. The biggest takeaway for me here is the cash number.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. It is an institutionalized asset class.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. I’ll tell you something funny and people you know, we never quite had that accusation, but for the better part of 15 years before I started accepting capital, it was, “Hey, everybody’s telling you how to manage your assets the wrong way. Number two is travel.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. He said, I overpaid for the asset.