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NOW 2016 | China’s Age of Ambition

Brown Advisory

Based in Beijing from 2005 until 2013, Osnos won the National Book Award in 2014 for Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. Americans simultaneously view China’s economy as both strong and vulnerable, while in geopolitics, they see Beijing as both a partner and an adversary, he said.

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NOW 2016 | China’s Age of Ambition

Brown Advisory

Based in Beijing from 2005 until 2013, Osnos won the National Book Award in 2014 for Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. Americans simultaneously view China’s economy as both strong and vulnerable, while in geopolitics, they see Beijing as both a partner and an adversary, he said.

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Finding What We’re Not Looking For

The Better Letter

The late David Foster Wallace spoke eloquently, movingly even, about this egocentric delusion in a fantastic commencement address he delivered at Kenyon College in 2005 in a way that just might help to loosen the hold of this delusion on those of us able to hear what he had to say. Why are people so down about the economy? The wildest.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

BALCHUNAS: While I was in college at Rutgers, and I was — wrote for the school paper, and I decided to major in journalism and communications because I liked it. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. That’s how good the economy was. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. But I — I got rejected.

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Government Debt and Stock Returns

ClearMoney

Exhibit 1 shows that roughly half the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries have general government debt-to-gross domestic product2 (debt/GDP) ratios above 70%, with 10 countries—including the US, Japan, and the United Kingdom (UK)—exceeding 100%. Trading Economics. Review of Finance 22, no.