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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like that solves like a number of issues.

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

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Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017. Back here in the U.S. —

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

Barry Ritholtz

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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