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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

The Big Picture

” That poor belief system has disadvantaged America — it has made us economically weaker, prevented the country from performing basic maintenance on its infrastructure, and generally made it a harsher place to live. Note that we undertook much of the work anyway (airports, electrical grid, roads, etc.),

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. Barry Ritholtz: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Heather. Brilliant is CEO of Diamond Hill.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide. Buffett likes Tim Sloan, who became CEO at Wells after the sales incentive revelations in 2016, and his efforts to fix those past mistakes.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide. Buffett likes Tim Sloan, who became CEO at Wells after the sales incentive revelations in 2016, and his efforts to fix those past mistakes.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. And I had written that first book about hedge funds, which led me- RITHOLTZ: In 2016, right? SEIDES: In 2016.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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