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AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. The leading economic indicators show the U.S. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. Sapient Capital ) • If the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In doing so, I thought this conversation was really quite fascinating, and I think you will also, especially if you’re not only interested in equity, but curious as to how to combine various aspects of market functions, valuation, economic cycle, fed actions into one coherent strategy. But generally starts with the economic cycle.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Company Lab was the entrepreneurship and economic development center for Chattanooga and the surrounding areas, which include North Georgia, North Alabama, and Southeast Tennessee. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker?

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AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. Things like leading economic indicators, et cetera, are all consistent with historical recessions.

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JULY 4, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you launch your own firm IDW in 2003. WEINSTEIN: I think people get comfortable and they feel like, again, it’s economic loss aversion theory at work. By the way congratulations that’s 20 years ago so you’re celebrating a big anniversary this year. Staying put cannot be just the default position.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. I’m going to be skeptical about analyst adjusted earnings and look to free cash flow is a confirming, but, but I also wanna see, is it one of those cases where the analyst adjustments are economically realistic or are they excuses? And the value line has all these statistical patterns.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that little detour was in 2003. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. Economic occupancy is who’s paying the rent. Sometimes five years.

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