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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

The Big Picture

I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. Now, the article came, I believe, at the end of nine, 2011 when gold was coming off of a run of very high return (1900 and change or so if memory serves?). You start from 2011, it was a disaster. And that was that was a pretty good marker.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

Which has in turn triggered the more skittish stock investors to run for the exits and completely change their view of our economic future, flooding the financial news with red ink and scary headlines. Now that we’ve covered the background, we can get into some better news: This is all a normal, healthy part of the economic cycle.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. What, why do we think that is?

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

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And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Really, what I would think is getting to my natural home and that happened in 2011. ! So, you wrote the prior book a decade ago, 2011 the “Expected Returns.” My really first stroke of luck, I think, was getting that job. ILMANEN: Yes.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

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So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

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We’re going to wait, we’re going to see, and we want to be supportive of the markets and the economic system. RITHOLTZ: Or the flash crash in 2010 and 2011. And so it’s one of these things that math works. So as I said earlier, we really thought that there could be some economic struggles following ’87.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

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Professor Stephanie Kelton teaches Public Policy and Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. You get a bachelor’s, a BA and a BS in Economics and Business at California Sacramento, then University of Cambridge, master’s in Philosophy and Economics, then a PhD in economics at the New School. I happened to pick that one.

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