The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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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.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

What about after taxes and benefits? How much an hour is 45000 a year after taxes? Some fall under different tax situations that can affect your take-home amounts. How much an hour is 45000 a year…after taxes? How much an hour is 45000 a year after taxes? So, 45,000 a year is how much an hour?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

There was XO Communication and McLeod. I mean, if we really stretched 10 times net income, I think if we find the hot buyer, we can get the 10 times, you know, with no adjustments, no trickery after tax net income, that would be a great price for most businesses. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. You don’t have to pay any tax and just let the rest ride. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. You give out 5%.

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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. there’s a big focus on how do we optimize for tax efficiency, too. It’s different wealth regimes, it’s different tax regimes. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So for a taxable investor, hedge funds generally aren’t tax efficient. And when you look at the assets that are invested, the three trillion in hedge funds, I would guess that north of 90% of that are in institutions that don’t pay taxes. It’s part of their own tax planning. Both people are kicking money in.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Also being cognizant of the tax implications of trading activity. They like tax-free income, but they also don’t like principal losses. And until they decide to communicate a different message, that’s what the market is going to continue to follow. It kind of made me think of a question.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

SETHI: When I show people for example that if you take a mortgage, you might as well just add on 50 percent to that mortgage to account for taxes, interest, maintenance, opportunity costs they are shocked they can’t believe it. It’s much deeper than math. RITHOLTZ: Right. Remember, she was about to divorce him.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

That includes all of its changes in its property taxes, it’s, it’s depreciable life for the improvements of the assets. So that we’re still on their network, we’re still, so that technology for us to go at it stronger, we would like for those devices to communicate back to us directly. They cover everything.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

Burger King Tim Hortons, I remember very clearly because it was in the middle of those waves of kind of tax dodgy, those inversion deals. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge. There should be no surprise here.

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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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And so the idea of this product was you plug the game cartridge, they had a communications capability, a modem built in, and you could download video games, almost like having an in-home arcade, like a Netflix for video. The math never seems to work out. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. How do I go about protecting this giant pool of capital and how do I not get killed tax wise? LINDZON: They have their own tax problems. RITHOLTZ: Right. Do you sell it?

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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 so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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