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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

Barry Ritholtz

Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. For the record, Census published its first study on the valuation of so-called “in-kind transfer benefits” in 1982. Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. ” Was this ignorance?

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

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. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. 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. What’s the valuation? You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Last year, you said you’re starting to become more constructive on emerging markets and more balanced, obviously, on the U.S. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. Do you, do you still have any? Sean Dobson : I have one in my office now. That’s awesome.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. But anyway, it was a beautifully constructed stress ball called the Grip. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? It was four tension. Now think about that.

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