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Podcast links: trusting yourself

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thewrap.com) Economy Ezra Klein talks the attention economy with Kyla Scanlon, author of "In This Economy?: podcasts.apple.com) Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk with Brian Yelvington, a consultant at the recruitment firm Carrington Fox, about what it takes to get a job at a multi-strategy hedge fund.

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Transcript: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan

The Big Picture

Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. Melissa Smith : So I definitely thought that I was gonna work in the public sector when, when I’m recruiting at JP Morgan I always, you know, get the question sort of how did, how did you get into investment banking? What was the original plan?

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Sunday links: re-learning market lessons

Abnormal Returns

bigthink.com) How European universities are recruiting American academics. npr.org) Economy Some signs of weakness in the labor market. (thenewatlantis.com) Cuts to American science funding are a gift to the rest of the world. wsj.com) Chinese students in the U.S. are under siege. theatlantic.com) RIP, USAID.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

One of the reasons I went to Merrill is I was recruited by one of my best friends, who is Sally Crotch? We have a very robust economy. And now here we are, and every couple of decades we have to go through these periods where there’s heat in the economy and inflation is one manifestation of the heat. As baby analysts.

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

The Big Picture

How does that affect how you recruit employees? So you think of old economy stocks and new economy stocks is another way to think about ’em. Well, and and by the way, those are the ones that are less liquid, less efficient that you’re likely to, to win with active management. 00:27:02 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

00:16:57 But I got the call and from a recruiter, and Jenison was an intriguing company to me. Or are we gonna see cuts because the economy is beginning to slow? It’s, you know, just well-known quality firm, strong results, impressive client roster. And I’d heard it had a great culture.

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Transcript: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments

The Big Picture

00:16:33 [Speaker Changed] So I’m, I’m hinting at a question that’s gonna come a little later, but my general sense is, you know, developed mature economies have fairly efficient markets, very hard to generate alpha because markets are so efficient. So my original focus was Sub-Saharan Africa.

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