The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

00:17:16 [Speaker Changed] And, and let’s be blunt and honest, Dave Portnoy is incredibly entertaining, even if that persona is an exaggeration of who he is, but no one wants him doing the payroll or the 00:17:30 [Speaker Changed] Healthcare. We over time had licensing and product development revenue. We had subscription revenue.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: — and having the guy — the attendant asked me, do you have an even number or odd number license plate? RITHOLTZ: My answer was, I’m 11, I don’t have a license plate, just give the kid a gallon of gas. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Right.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. And the difficulty with healthcare is that you are not supposed to put profits ahead of patients. RITHOLTZ: How did private equity healthcare, senior living, nursing homes, ERs, hospitals, do during the COVID pandemic? MORGENSON: Right.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

And then people will feel licensed to say what they had shut up about. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. But let’s stick with happiness. RITHOLTZ: Very much a winner take all sort of phenomena.

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