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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

I look for people that have done extracurricular work, or you know, manage their own little portfolio, or have stock ideas or businesses ideas that they want to pitch. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? Number one, manufacturing has been strong in the Southeast for a number of years.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

The Big Picture

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I worked in sort of a quasi portfolio management role for like a single client account type business. And then I worked on it throughout the GFC and then became the senior portfolio manager during the recovery period.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. And lots of surprises.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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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. This is your nest egg. We’ll come back to this. The minimum investment on Fundrise is only $10.