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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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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

Which has in turn triggered the more skittish stock investors to run for the exits and completely change their view of our economic future, flooding the financial news with red ink and scary headlines. Now that we’ve covered the background, we can get into some better news: This is all a normal, healthy part of the economic cycle.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

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 much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. Really, what I would think is getting to my natural home and that happened in 2011. ! So, you wrote the prior book a decade ago, 2011 the “Expected Returns.” My really first stroke of luck, I think, was getting that job. ILMANEN: Yes.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Your chief economic advisor to the president.

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Transcript: Peter Goodman

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Peter Goodman, is the award-winning investigative reporter and economics correspondent for the New York Times, his latest book, how the World Ran Out Of Everything Inside The Global Supply Chain. And I was ostensibly the economic writer.