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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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Investing in Pigs and Kidneys: Building a $100 Billion Empire and Revolutionizing Organ Transplants

Investing Caffeine

Finished her PhD at The London School of Medicine (Barts) Practiced law at the Covington & Burling law firm representing the television broadcasting industry before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The severity of the organ shortage problem is clear-cut if you examine the numbers.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds.

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Longform links: misinformation and disinformation

Abnormal Returns

wsj.com) A Q&A with Dalla Riva, author of "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves." noahpinion.blog) Medicine How childhood leukemia became increasingly treatable. (awfulannouncing.com) An excerpt from “Rich Girl Nation: Taking Charge of Our Financial Futures” by Katie Gatti Tassin.

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Strong-Link Problems

The Better Letter

Routine medicine is a weak-link problem. Cutting-edge medicine is different. 18 The weak-link problem versus strong-link problem formulation comes from The Numbers Game , a terrific book about soccer analytics (soccer is a weak-link problem commonly attacked like a strong-link problem) by Chris Anderson and David Sally.

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Saturday links: the secular decline in cereal

Abnormal Returns

Who's number two? cnbc.com) Medicine Americans increasingly don't have a family doctor, i.e. general practitioner. emilyoster.substack.com) Five insights from "Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health" by Apunam Jena and Christopher Worsham.

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Saturday links: coming and going

Abnormal Returns

Autos The number of EV chargers is on the rise in the U.S. science.org) Medicine The Epstein-Barr virus may not be all that benign. scottsumner.substack.com) By the numbers, these are the musical artists that are being forgotten. nytimes.com) On the limits of self-driving cars to fix cities.