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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

The Big Picture

Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. ” In 2008. For the record, Census published its first study on the valuation of so-called “in-kind transfer benefits” in 1982.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

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I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. I could maybe flip that around a little bit since I think particularly post 2008, 2009, the quality style of investing has become a lot more popular.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

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I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund. So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. A year ago, late stage valuations had gone just bonkers.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). the current blowup) -20% so far What’s your guess? In today’s market, you are getting about 25% more shares for each dollar that you invest.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

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So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

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It started on January 1 of 2008. SEIDES: In Warren’s 2008 annual letter, I think it was 2008, he made a statement. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. What’s the valuation? SEIDES: That’s right.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

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And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. Think about the two founders of Global X, Bruno and Jose, they set up Global X in 2008. BERRUGA: Exactly.

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