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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. There’s a continual, the economy continues to grow. It goes so far. Did you give me cash?

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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.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. ” Nobody does. And lots of surprises.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

The Big Picture

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. I think it’s not just new economy chip purveyors, but it’s also the companies that buy the chips and become better.

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The Scapegoat

The Irrelevant Investor

According to a Deloitte article, in 2012, 500 of the highest paid executives received an average remuneration of $24.4 The Atlantic asks Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy ? These sort of numbers will always grind higher as the economy grows over time. The S&P 500 price index has gained 156% over the same time.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. So here’s the math, Barry. It’s gonna take a while to integrate, integrate those folks back into other parts of the economy. You know, all of these things.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

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. And you think it had a positive impact on the economy? 01:18:26 [Speaker Changed] I think it’s had a positive impact on the economy. Well slow the economy.

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