The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

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. SALISBURY: So I led the European Special Situations Group from 2008 to 2013.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

If you invested $100 in Bitcoin in Bitcoin in July 2013, about nine years ago, you would have bought 1.47 When a miner is first to succeed in solving the complex math to process a new block of transactions, that person is rewarded with the transaction fees from recent users and newly minted bitcoin. That’s an incredible gain!

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 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.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. RITHOLTZ: Whereas the — and the market when — essentially didn’t get above 2000 to like 2013 or so. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I love statistics.

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The Better Letter

APRIL 11, 2024

David Russell’s 2013 film, American Hustle , began as a script by writer and producer Eric Singer entitled, “American Bulls–t.” The interplay between math and team personnel is part of what makes basketball interesting. It is also well represented within popular culture. ” Who is conning whom?

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. And that’s sort of the math.

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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. And then in 2013, ‘14, an agency that actually Jeff knows about called Wondersauce –- RITHOLTZ: That’s a great name. CLYMER: Yes, around there, I would say.

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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?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works. That I think has become pretty important. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Right.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So in 2013, just like you said, VCs are not perfect. LINDZON: So at the time in 2013, you could look through the financial statements of Schwab and TD public statements, and they were spending $150 for a customer acquisition. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. They are like MOS.

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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. And I’m like, “Well, if Bob Shiller is putting on the seatbelts, maybe he’s done the math, maybe I should be wearing a seatbelt in the back of the car.”

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