The Better Letter

MAY 30, 2024

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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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. 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. That’s how good the economy was. Not really.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? RITHOLTZ: Right. People got to eat.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

But, while government spending may provide a short-term stimulatory effect on the economy, the prospect of higher future taxes and long-run impacts on spending and investment introduces many channels through which spending and debt levels might affect expected stock returns. 2005), MSCI Turkey Index (gross div.)(2000),

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

But, while government spending may provide a short-term stimulatory effect on the economy, the prospect of higher future taxes and long-run impacts on spending and investment introduces many channels through which spending and debt levels might affect expected stock returns. 2005), MSCI Turkey Index (gross div.)(2000),

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: Wind, solar, electrifying the economy, getting off of oil and gas, and it’s all kinds of companies engaged. BARATTA: I think it was 2005, when we started to look at in China and in India, in particular, and also Japan. BARATTA: A growing economy, zero cost to capital, markets compounding at 15, 16, 17 percent.

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