The Big Picture

MARCH 31, 2023

Days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, some media reports suggested remote work was to blame. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions. ” In 2023, remote work is threatening to kill banks.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. None of it matters.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In work on economic games, he explores how choices commonly presumed to be economic in nature actually hinge more on psychological factors, such as social norms and emotion. Barry Ritholtz : So we live in an era of social media. We know a little bit of math. Everybody walks around with their phones in their pockets.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

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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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jonathan kind of famously announced that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer on his website as well as social media. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

While the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement has been spreading like, well, wildfire on social media, that’s not what we’re talking about here. Most economic research recommends a safe withdrawal rate to be no more than 2% to 4% — which could be less than you are imagining. How Early Is Early?

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In doing so, I thought this conversation was really quite fascinating, and I think you will also, especially if you’re not only interested in equity, but curious as to how to combine various aspects of market functions, valuation, economic cycle, fed actions into one coherent strategy. But generally starts with the economic cycle.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Building multiple passive income streams has an additional benefit in the short term: it can make you more resilient and better able to weather economic shocks, such as what was experienced with the past housing crisis and global pandemic. Become A Social Media Influencer Semi-Passive Side Hustles 15. This is your nest egg.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Well, I think it’s a, dude, it, it was toxic social media in general has this toxicity problem, but opening the floodgates. I will say, if anybody thinks the public square, as we’ve traditionally known it, is what people go to social media for. So here’s the math, Barry. And we, listen, I love Twitter.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Company Lab was the entrepreneurship and economic development center for Chattanooga and the surrounding areas, which include North Georgia, North Alabama, and Southeast Tennessee. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker?

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

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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Sara Grillo

MAY 16, 2022

This “advice only” financial advisor approach is an economical option for people who can do the implementation work on their own. Wall Street is very good at taking advantage of people who either aren’t good at math or don’t like doing it, which is why the AUM model has persisted over time. It seems so small.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? The second is excess returns.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s client related, it’s media like we’re doing today. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And ultimately we think this is going to allow us to pursue a level of economic growth that continues to give us full employment, moderate price increases.” RITHOLTZ: Right. We believe in this.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You may find yourself making simple changes to the backend of a website or running social media campaigns that you previously knew nothing about! Typical tasks include schedule planning, email management, answering phone calls, data entry, booking travel, and managing social media. Average salary: $50+ per article.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

SETHI: And all these this media about how the stock market was going up 15 percent a week. Media subscription should be free. Every time I do media, the predominant question is, times are tough, things are crazy, how do we get by? It’s much deeper than math. RITHOLTZ: Sure. So… RITHOLTZ: Forever. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. The other is, it was a fascinating exercise to see how the media works. And then massive amounts of media attached to it. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? Or was this a, like, to me it sounds like the whole thing was spectacular.

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Abnormal Returns

DECEMBER 8, 2024

on.ft.com) What it took to rebuild Notre Dame (nytimes.com) Budgeting The math on any additional tax cuts is tough. donmoynihan.substack.com) Climate policy IS economic policy. nytimes.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. calculatedriskblog.com) Mixed media Top clicks last week on the site. Well, you should.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: So, you know, think about last year, I mean, every media event or any anything we did externally, and it’s always what people said, how much cash you’re running? RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RIEDER: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So they can see firsthand what’s happening as well as obviously inviting media, but local media and national media. The math never seems to work out. If you’re trying to get media attention, you’re selling. And even in the social media space, there have been some — you know, some challenges.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. Even if you read both of Browder’s books, you will find something to be amazed at. With no further ado, my conversation with Bill Browder.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

barrons.com) Trump Media ($DJT) is getting into the ETF business. bonddad.blogspot.com) Brian Albrecht, "Economic prosperity doesnt require perfect policies, but it does require stable ones." abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media Why unclogging videos on YouTube are so satisfying. politico.com) How DOGE has hamstrung the CIA.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. But the financial media does a great job of coming up with stories why whatever is working is the truth and whoever is losing is — RITHOLTZ: Right. He’s the genius in math. For years, my dad, it was in spreadsheet. ASNESS: — I got it from somewhere.

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Abnormal Returns

MARCH 4, 2025

econbrowser.com) Economic growth was set to slow in 2025, even before DOGE-related uncertainty. stayathomemacro.substack.com) Of course economic policy uncertainty has spiked. mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Earlier on Abnormal Returns Research links: more than math. (ft.com) Economy Heavy truck sales fell in February 2025.

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Abnormal Returns

MARCH 5, 2025

(readthejointaccount.com) Some signs that economic uncertainty is bleeding through into consumer intentions. abnormalreturns.com) Research links: more than math. abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media While we are fighting over tariffs and charging stations, China is pushing ahead on EVs. Well, you should.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

But also, this is a story of starting a small media outlet, a small web presence, and recognizing that there’s business potential here, and how to slowly grow that into something that’s substantial. RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99?

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

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 know you like to discuss there are different phases of the, of the, both the market and the economic cycle.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. We started publishing our research, getting out there more, and slowly used that to transition to be, you know, we were more active on social media. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Did you see the Liberty Street Economics research paper? This recent paper at Liberty Street Economics blog, which is the New York Fed Research blog, said, “Oh, it turns out that people have adjusted to work from home. SIEGEL: Then it was — you know, I tried to read a couple of things that aren’t just economics.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It's a moving target, negating any percentage math. As her Democratic opponent held a slight lead Tuesday night with votes still being tabulated and no media outlets calling the race in either direction, Lake was undeterred when she spoke on stage to supporters, declaring, “We are going to continue to monitor the ballots.…

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. And lots of surprises.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

New York Times Magazine ) • Wall Street Math Wizards Are Decoding Private-Market Returns : A small band of quants is shining a light into the shadowy world of unlisted assets. Washington Post ) but see Who Is to Blame for Inflation, 1-15 : The world is complex, and it is rarely (if ever) one causal factor driving economic events.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

CASS SUNSTEIN, FOUNDER, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL’S PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Thank you, a great pleasure to be here. RITHOLTZ: There’s nobody in the world of economics or behavioral finance like Dick Thaler. I thought law and economics was extremely important and kind of on the right track.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

Morgan Stanley’s Chief Economic Strategist blew her call , too. The most bullish call in Sam Ro’s compilation was 5,500, up nearly 20 percent, by Capital Economics. The consensus on Wall Street was that interest rates had peaked for the economic cycle. That’s not bad, still well short of actual returns.

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