Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. And as you scale up the operation, some economies of scale on things like space and equipment make it even better. I am guessing that you might feel the same way these days – most of us Americans are in the same boat.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. We’d never seen it before.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

NADIG: So the reason is because, you know, when we look at how the corporate economy works, there are investments that you have to make. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. It’s how math works.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

From February 2013 to November 2016, there were 3.6 The Atlantic asks Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy ? These sort of numbers will always grind higher as the economy grows over time. If you're curious to learn how the math behind this, read this piece from Econompic. Things are tough for aging Americans.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. 00:16:33 [Speaker Changed] So I’m, I’m hinting at a question that’s gonna come a little later, but my general sense is, you know, developed mature economies have fairly efficient markets, very hard to generate alpha because markets are so efficient.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. So in 2013, just like you said, VCs are not perfect. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. And Fred goes, that’s very clever. They are like MOS.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

The interlinkages between women, our education policy, labor force, productivity, and again, ultimately the growth of the economy. But there’s such a difference between how they operate the economy and, and especially the financial sector. 00:41:54 [Speaker Changed] That was in an Asian manager in 2013. Fascinating.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There’s a lot of people writing about that back in 2012, 2013, that they started selling at a premium multiple to the market, which is very obviously not the case today. RITHOLTZ: So 5% funds rate, what does that do to the economy? That’s — SIEGEL: Yeah. SIEGEL: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: So we’ll be at 5%. So two questions.

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