The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. I thought that was a really interesting story.

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Validea

JUNE 14, 2023

A Glimpse into the Past: The Historical Giants In order to understand the potential growth trajectory to a $10 trillion company, we must first examine the economic giants of the past. The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap.

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Validea

JUNE 14, 2023

A Glimpse into the Past: The Historical Giants In order to understand the potential growth trajectory to a $10 trillion company, we must first examine the economic giants of the past. The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The New Normal It is difficult for investors and individuals alike not to have been directly impacted by the rapid rise in inflation in 2021 and 2022, the succeeding interest rate hikes by global central banks and the ensuing effects these economic events have had on financial markets, including the mortgage market. will require 4.3

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. It was at Bank One, at the time. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 27, 2022

And since 2022 is becoming a year of interesting financial changes, it’s time to spark things up again, go back to our roots, and start covering some of the many subjects that are cropping up in this latest incarnation of our economic world. So I did the math on that too**.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

Jason Zweig @jasonzweigwsj 1:32 PM ∙ Aug 18, 2022 66 Likes 12 Retweets The above is from Jason’s brilliant book, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary. That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. 2:06 PM ∙ Nov 16, 2022 Nobody can know what’s going to happen.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Those numbers are through 2021. 2022 Math The 2021 year end debt was $29.621 trillion. The alleged fiscal year 2022 deficit is $1,375 trillion. 2022 is not over but debt has already risen by $1.687 trillion. Nearly 50,000 economic illiterates like that Tweet. Only once, did debt shrink. That was in 2000.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

2022 was certainly a challenging year for a lot of the hedge fund industry and it really separates the winners from the also-ran. And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. And I realized I have his home number. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? ” and that’s how I started out at Tudor.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. RITHOLTZ: So like the 40 percent number, what are the odds of this happening? Stocks usually make 10 percent a year, and don’t hold me to any of these numbers. What you’re going to earn on that money is an important number.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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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 kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. Barry Ritholtz: You know, the last time you were here, that number was something like 35 times. Before we get into the details of your career and and your work, how on earth is anyone ranked number one for 43 consecutive times?

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Markets have pretty much done nothing but roll over and head south in 2022. And so, it’s very sort of, I don’t know, math oriented or algebra-oriented type of thing as opposed to great stories which drive most investment passions.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. He wrote, what, what can I say?

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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? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. The number one response every single time to this day is for Hodinkee to sell things because they trust us.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So, 00:25:52 [Speaker Changed] You know, as you know, 2022 was a tech recession. Sales centers are, are more productive.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number. 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.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s sold ungodly numbers of copies, and is on everybody’s best finance books of all-time list. When a professor says, “Come in, we’ll talk about the assignment,” and you come in and say, “I’ve already crunched the number. RITHOLTZ: The 2022 bear market? And they have some fascinating things to say.

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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. Starting at the beginning of the administration in 2017.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Estimated numbers of uncounted votes vary widely The number of remaining votes is a guaranteed moving target A Tweet Thread by Sean Golonka explains. It's a moving target, negating any percentage math. After so ably channeling Trump, better than any other candidate in 2022, Lake has ended up as the last MAGA standing.

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