The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? And I love that.

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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. Passer Ratings decline with every round of the draft except the sixth, the numbers for which are skewed by Brady.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). It’d be like retiring at the bottom of 2009 with still-decent numbers. the current blowup) -20% so far What’s your guess?

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Additionally, underbuilding in the years following the subprime mortgage and global financial crisis of 2007-2010 resulted in a systemic shortage of housing that has driven rapid appreciation in home prices and rental costs alike.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. This is the summer of 2007. RITHOLTZ: 2007. I don’t remember the number. So back in 2007.

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The Better Letter

JUNE 13, 2024

There are any number of potential aids, 1 large and small, to be applied to our problematic decision-making. Metro station during rush hour in 2007, playing some of the masterworks of the classical repertoire on a 1713 Stradivarius for which he is reported to have paid $3.5

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

These numbers are so incomprehensibly large that they lack any meaning. In a recent Axios article, Being 30 then and now , the author wrote "In 1975, only a quarter of 25 to 34-year-old men made less than $30K per year, but that number rose to 41% in 2016." It's like saying that Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away from the earth.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers. That OER number was calculable four months ago.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. In 2007, firms extracted — the private equity firms extracted $20 billion from companies in the form of dividend recapitalizations. RITHOLTZ: Really, that’s a big number.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I had just gotten married in the fall of 2007. 00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I sent email to Marc Maron because he had the number one podcast. A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. MCRANEY: Maybe like 2008, 2007, around there. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s the fall of 2007. Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right? I do the math.

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