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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. We evolved in an arithmetic world, so we are unprepared for the exponential math of finance.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

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What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours? WENGER: A couple of hours. RITHOLTZ: That’s amazing.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

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That led me down that track and really well, I had a software engineering job. Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. I really loved it. In 2000, right.

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

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00:02:13 [Speaker Changed] Well, actually I started out electrical engineering. First, 00:02:18 [Speaker Changed] First two years, electrical engineering. I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

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But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But even in the book I wrote in 2014, you could see that the focus on competitive advantage can never be absolute, you always have to take valuation into consideration. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

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And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

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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. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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