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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. So you have all of this very pragmatic experience as opposed to getting a PhD in economics, which tends to be a little more abstract and academic. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. But it was — on the other hand, it was just a great place, well, first to try it but the second thing is when 2008 came along, it was one of the few places that we’re making money. But it just didn’t become a great success.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

The Big Picture

Ben Clymer took a buyout offer from UBS in 2008 right in the middle of the financial crisis and said, “I know what I’m going to do. 2008, you launched a blog after you leave UBS in the midst of the financial crisis. RITHOLTZ: Hey, in 2008, that was not nothing. I know a little bit about that. CLYMER: It started for fun.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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