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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

Barry Ritholtz

As the Peterson Institute noted: In June, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $663 billion in 2023 and almost double over the upcoming decade, soaring from $745 billion in 2024 to $1.4 Note that this is not hindsight bias , but rather discussions we had repeatedly here in the mid-2010s.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

CFO News Room

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. 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. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary.

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