The Better Letter

JUNE 23, 2022

Make Fewer Decisions It’s simple math. “You’ll see I wear only grey or blue suits,” then-President Barack Obama told Michael Lewis in 2012. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I’m not talking about procrastination, although doing so often helps.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

They go crazy and paint it with BS statements like: Tax-free guaranteed income Can’t lose money asset Upside potential with downside protection Privatized banking Be your own bank Remember that there is a floor to the crediting rate, but that doesn’t mean you can’t lose money. Here’s why that stinks. Transcript 0:00:00.6

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. It’s all tax free. In not paying your taxes. So ba in mathematics and philosophy from Berkeley, an MBA from Columbia.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

You’re there almost a decade, Lisa Shalett : So, and, and from 2012 to 2025, that’s a huge run. And then the next step up seems to be full on wealth management, where you’re dealing with philanthropy, generational wealth transfer, a lot of bells and whistles including estate planning tax. Remember that.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Deloitte article, in 2012, 500 of the highest paid executives received an average remuneration of $24.4 They'll cite the fact that companies are going to buy back $1 trillion in stock this year, due to the excess cash provided by the tax cuts. The anti-buyback arguments are being used as a political weapon.

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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 they said as a result of them earning zero, the $230 million of taxes that was paid in the previous year is paid in error and we’d like that money back. It is $2 billion on the ship.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Michael Lewis ] 00:06:54 [Speaker Changed] So going back to about, I dunno, maybe 2012, I’d had made several runs at writing about crypto, mainly at the behest of crypto people because they wanted attention. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. I thought so.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. 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.

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