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. What, why do we think that is?
The Big Picture
AUGUST 15, 2023
You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. 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. RITHOLTZ: Right. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny?
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The Better Letter
JANUARY 11, 2024
That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. And lots of surprises.
The Irrelevant Investor
AUGUST 9, 2018
There are a lot of economic problems that we'll face in the coming years. The erosion of that bargaining power is one of the biggest economic stories of the past four decades, yet it’s less about supply and demand than about institutions and politics." Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions. Which leads us to share repurchases.
The Big Picture
MAY 2, 2023
RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? This is 2012, 2013, was enormous in the industry. CLYMER: Probably 2012. ANNOUNCER: Geopolitical risk, changing regulation, economic uncertainty, EY can help you identify the risks that matter.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up. 00:44:49 [Speaker Changed] Correct?
The Big Picture
OCTOBER 3, 2023
 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. 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. Your chief economic advisor to the president.
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