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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So this is more like the real economy, slower growth businesses.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

It was a wild ride because by the time you got, well, so in 2005, we went on a road show trying to tell people what we had learned, and there wasn’t a lot of reception. And in the 2000 at the 2005 conference, it’s kind of wild. Maybe the market hadn’t priced something properly. Sean Dobson : It was a wild ride.

Banking 143
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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

And so the idea of this product was you plug the game cartridge, they had a communications capability, a modem built in, and you could download video games, almost like having an in-home arcade, like a Netflix for video. Initially, it was started in 2005 and it was called Revolution, but it was just my capital.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: 2004, 2005. RITHOLTZ: 2005. ” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors. So this is the math that I applied. LINDZON: Yes. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Media 281
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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

When I look back at 2005, ’06, ’07, yeah, those growth stocks that collapsed from way too high, probably were too low. RITHOLTZ: So 5% funds rate, what does that do to the economy? RITHOLTZ: The research department in the FOMC don’t seem to communicate. But in the postwar period, we’ve had the cycles. SIEGEL: Yes.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.