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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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The importance of evaluating social factors in mortgage bond analysis

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The New Normal It is difficult for investors and individuals alike not to have been directly impacted by the rapid rise in inflation in 2021 and 2022, the succeeding interest rate hikes by global central banks and the ensuing effects these economic events have had on financial markets, including the mortgage market.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. What, why do we think that is?

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Following the financial crisis and the Fed cutting rates, economy and the market starts recovering in late 2009 and then 2010 and we kept hearing from a lot of different value corners, hey, everything is richly priced. Bonds are the most expensive.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. It’s lower.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

We’re going to wait, we’re going to see, and we want to be supportive of the markets and the economic system. RITHOLTZ: Or the flash crash in 2010 and 2011. And so it’s one of these things that math works. So as I said earlier, we really thought that there could be some economic struggles following ’87.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. So it’s been a central to what I do and who I am.

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