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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. They don’t need to transact.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. So you have all of this very pragmatic experience as opposed to getting a PhD in economics, which tends to be a little more abstract and academic. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math.

Economy 141
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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker’s good guys was one of my sales contacts there. 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.

Investing 130
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31 Passive Income Ideas to Build Real Wealth (Updated for 2023)

Good Financial Cents

Building multiple passive income streams has an additional benefit in the short term: it can make you more resilient and better able to weather economic shocks, such as what was experienced with the past housing crisis and global pandemic. Roofstock is a marketplace of turnkey single-family homes for sale. This is your nest egg.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

The Big Picture

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? But there were a lot of other purveyors of watches that really were not super, super ethical folks. region was well on its way to becoming the biggest site for any sales for Louis Vuitton.

Retail 161
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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide.

Assets 52