The Big Picture

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“I need the US Dollar to be a store of value between the time I make it until I spend it, invest it, pay my taxes with it, or give it away. To be more precise, I want to discuss the type of chart that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of money, currency, spending, investing, and taxes. It does that splendidly.”

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2024

At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence (July 24, 2024) We focus most of our investing efforts on information and knowledge. Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. I think one analogy here would be think about health and medicine. None of it matters.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Kids that have an interest in investing.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” 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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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

This wasn’t a mom-and-pop investment. That’s a real estate investment trust that is a Blackstone entity. Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. The Professor invested and joined as an advisor.

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