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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How New York and California Botched Marijuana Legalization : Steep taxes and heavy regulation are making it hard for licensed pot sellers to operate in some states, driving more producers and buyers to illegal outlets.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Top 40 under 40.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

We had Ziff Davis magazines that we sold to Mr. Son and started Masayoshi Son’s career. So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Well, I mean, they can get out of hand.

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The 48 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Related posts on business ideas for women Try out one of these best business ideas for women!

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

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She has worked at “Money Magazine”, “Forbes”, “Worth”, all over the place. You started as an assistant editor at Vogue Magazine in the late ’70s. RITHOLTZ: They just wanted to have a little, “Hey, let’s speak to women in our magazine.” Let’s talk about tax loopholes. MORGENSON: At Vogue.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

HOFFMAN: It was called “Wednesday Journal” and they ran a bunch of weekly newspapers and a monthly parenting magazine called “Chicago Parent” That was my, truly my first job was running, I was their web editor. And it was day by day from the seat of, it was the month that the economy shut down. RITHOLTZ: How did you get to the journal?

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

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I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. The first big article, I think it was Fortune Magazine, Bethany McLean took a year for the stock to collapse a full year. So here’s the math, Barry. Completely.

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