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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. I think it was just the way it was communicated, right. But I think the emphasis is uncautious and we felt comfortable holding the risk that we had in the book. Let’s talk about books. But for me, this was not an option.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

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Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. You know, he’s written several historically deep books, particularly about Bernard Baruch, but he certainly, you know, describes the historical episodes of manias and panics. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare.

Math 130
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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

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Barry Ritholtz : you were head of strategy, product marketing, communications, like is that one job, is that four jobs? The corporate communications function at Vanguard today, you know, has evolved considerably from back in the early days. Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s, let’s put some flesh on the bones.

Clients 130
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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

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And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t. I’m Barry Riol.

Economy 130
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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

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Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And a deal code is just a numerical moniker that we put on each trading idea within the book. If the s and p moves by 10 basis points, it doesn’t communicate to you how the s and p affects other things. 00:49:30 [Speaker Changed] You mentioned books earlier.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on ‘Who is Government’

The Big Picture

His new book, he, he has this just absolutely insane way of seeing around a corner. Whether it’s saving lives in coal mines or stopping cyber crime, or keeping you the food supply safe, the book is just filled with all these stories and it’s, it’s absolutely a nonpartisan, it’s not a left right thing.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

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So I tend to view computer coding not that dissimilar to communicating in a foreign language. A lot of times you’re learning your French, Spanish to communicate with someone in a different country. When you’re learning computer coding, you’re just learning how to communicate with a machine. MARTIN: Yeah.