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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

The Company Lab was the entrepreneurship and economic development center for Chattanooga and the surrounding areas, which include North Georgia, North Alabama, and Southeast Tennessee. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker?

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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. Now HBS I think is 52 or 53 percent.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case. MORGENSON: This is a $64 trillion question, Barry, and I would love for you to ask every State Attorney General, for instance, why haven’t you gone after for-profit medicine? We’re going to help you make more money.

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

The Big Picture

He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. You’re the author of 200 plus papers, six books, deaths of Despair, which you wrote with Anne Case who happens to be your wife, was a New York Times bestseller and your latest book, economics in America, an Immigrant Economist, explores the Land of inequality.

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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

Recently, more recently, a company in Chicago called Tempus, it got a big data precision medicine to help people who are diagnosed with cancer. The math never seems to work out. RITHOLTZ: I love them. I just flew out JFK. They’re the best. CASE: Yeah. We see it every time, some billionaires’ stadium gets paid for by taxpayers.

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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: Did you see the Liberty Street Economics research paper? This recent paper at Liberty Street Economics blog, which is the New York Fed Research blog, said, “Oh, it turns out that people have adjusted to work from home. SIEGEL: Then it was — you know, I tried to read a couple of things that aren’t just economics.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. 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. Even if you read both of Browder’s books, you will find something to be amazed at. With no further ado, my conversation with Bill Browder.