The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. But I — I got rejected. Not really.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Those types of excess savings were sort of the culprit for the conundrum in 2005 or whatever it was. And then, most importantly, I do love his ethical antenna and his kind of truth-telling obsession that he has. ILMANEN: Yes. So, that’s great.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 16, 2016

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. In the 51 years since Buffett took control, Berkshire Hathaway has grown from a small, economically challenged textile company to one of the largest U.S. Ruane passed away in 2005.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So we haven’t talked about the thematic ETS, biblical, partisan, our friend Perth Tolle’s Economic Freedom. There’s no economic incentive for anybody to change any of that. So the most interesting thing I think that’s markets related is probably what’s going on in economics. NADIG: FRDM.

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