The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. We need writers.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. You know, I also had, you know, my, my chief of staff, my chief of communications, Ashley Hickeys, she, she was over the top amazing. She left there, she became a crisis communications expert.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There’s a lot of people writing about that back in 2012, 2013, that they started selling at a premium multiple to the market, which is very obviously not the case today. RITHOLTZ: So 5% funds rate, what does that do to the economy? RITHOLTZ: The research department in the FOMC don’t seem to communicate. SIEGEL: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And in November of 2012, it went for a vote in the Senate and it cast 92-4. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. They said, seven years.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. Like you’re running a race and you pass the person on second place, what place you’re in. is a laggard. MCRANEY: Yes.

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