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Speaker 1: US stocks are falling, with the SNP five hundred remaining

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Speaker 1: within a tight trading range after data on inflation and

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve to gradually raise interest rates. We checked the

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Speaker 1: The SNP five hundred down three tenths per cent or

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Speaker 1: seven points to fifty nine down Jones Industrial Average down

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Speaker 1: dollar thirteen forty one. The en one oh nine point

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Speaker 1: oh two I report this morning showed the costa living

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Speaker 1: Separate data showed residential starts in crease six point six

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Speaker 1: queuing up to finance at Del's sixty seven billion dollar

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Speaker 1: acquisition of e m C with a computer maker, poise

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Speaker 1: year's second biggest corporate bond sale. The company has received

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Speaker 1: more than eighty billion dollars of orders from investors by

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Speaker 1: the time its bankers closed the books on Tuesday that,

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Speaker 1: according to people familiar with the transaction, that's a Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: business flash. Tom and Mike Karen, thanks so much, Mike,

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Speaker 1: Robert Gordon, move over talk about the splash six months ago.

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Speaker 1: I know you're reading every word of Gordon is weighty

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Speaker 1: tones about is it the what the hell happened? Category?

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Speaker 1: Is that safe enough? Well? Yeah, it's a good way

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Speaker 1: to put us. Yeah. And here is an important effort

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Speaker 1: to give depth and and and I'm gonna use this

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Speaker 1: word with great respect thickness to the conversation. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you bring in the author of Money Changes Everything, How

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Speaker 1: finance made civilization possible? He doesn't apologize. Uh. Yale Professor

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Speaker 1: William Getsman is the author of the book, and it's

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Speaker 1: basically a look at, um, how we developed in part

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Speaker 1: faster better. Uh, the civilization we know today because we

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Speaker 1: were able to use finance to get there. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: a time machine, you say, because we can move our

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Speaker 1: assets backwards and forward in time. Yes, that's a simple

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Speaker 1: way of looking at it. Um. You know, a simple

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Speaker 1: thing like a mortgage actually is amazing when you think

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Speaker 1: about it. It It gives you a lot of money

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Speaker 1: stretching out for decades. And interestingly is is people figured

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Speaker 1: this out centuries and centuries ago. I mean, we tend

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Speaker 1: to think of Wall Street today it's the center of

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Speaker 1: innovation in finance, but it's almost as if everything new

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Speaker 1: is old again. Oh, the calculation of complex UH investment

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Speaker 1: thousand years. There is a book that that changed me

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Speaker 1: in Splendid Exchange, William Bernstein, and he gives a rave

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Speaker 1: blurb to your effort this idea of finance and where

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Speaker 1: we are now, which is that it's a train wreck, etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: You work with Bob Schiller, Yale and and a lot

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Speaker 1: of other people trying to get us beyond the crisis?

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Speaker 1: Are we even Are we even remotely back to a

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Speaker 1: respect for money and a respect for Wall Street. I

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Speaker 1: think as everybody begins to look at how much they've

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Speaker 1: And so even those that are deeply suspicious of savings

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Speaker 1: actually does respect finance. But um, people can get very

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Speaker 1: book on seventeen twenty. We were talking yesterday about Steven

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Speaker 1: eighteenth century. And actually it was a way that government's

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Speaker 1: I look at it in terms of this broader long

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Speaker 1: for example, is UM an important UM thing that came

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Speaker 1: out of that early financial in UM development. And yet

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Speaker 1: we haven't been able to excuse me Mike as a

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Speaker 1: surveillance b exclusive. He does not mention rogue off at

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Speaker 1: reinhard nothing about Harvard in this book. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that's about. Uh, we haven't been able to improve

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Speaker 1: on social security enough to keep it solid well, hasn't

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Speaker 1: actually it's an idea that we could push a little

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Speaker 1: give a broader set of people a chance to participate

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Speaker 1: You know what's really interesting is if you look at China,

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Speaker 1: ways by creating a larger governmental structure with an accounting

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Bob Schiller on page three thirty one. That's

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Speaker 1: a disgrace in itself. You should have been mentioned on

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Speaker 1: more emotional, We've become more Shalrian behavioral in that. What

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Speaker 1: have we learned about the behavior of black swans beyond

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Speaker 1: the stereotypes of the depression? What have we learned about

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Speaker 1: the emotion of finance? You know, I think that the

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Speaker 1: brain has two parts to it, and uh, we've seen

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Speaker 1: part is very reactive and emotional. The other part is

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Speaker 1: rational and calculating. UM. The rational calculating part, I think

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Speaker 1: don't like to go there, and and they don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: have to if they can delegate their decision making to others.

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Speaker 1: But UM, I see the UM, the EBB and flow

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Speaker 1: that uh that uh, that type number one brain, the

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Speaker 1: type that overreacts is um is in play right now. Um.

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Speaker 1: What we've seen, and this is work with Bob Schilder

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Speaker 1: that's not in the book, but some research that he

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Speaker 1: and I and and somebody else are conducting. We've taken

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Speaker 1: a survey over many years and found that people tend

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Speaker 1: to overestimate the probabilities of a crash by by factors

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Speaker 1: of five or ten. So um, you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: always latent there that that fear. Mike, I'm too choked

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Speaker 1: up to talk. You're gonna have to take a page

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Speaker 1: five oh five. He's got a brilliant income substitution. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Harry Markowitz chart on the mathematical method of optimization. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's gorgeous, including dynamic. He's trying to sell

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Speaker 1: this book. I can't talk. Is there a foundation stone

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Speaker 1: for finance? One concept that is most important time is money,

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Speaker 1: very simple, it's a it's the closest connection between money

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Speaker 1: and time is finance? Professor? Seriously, are we gonna get

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Speaker 1: back to where James Diamond is somebody America respects. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure exactly how to answer that question. Um but

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Speaker 1: um uh. You know, I think that um the culture

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Speaker 1: will always have some level of antagonism towards the financial

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Speaker 1: Not enough time, Thank you so much, William Getsman. Money

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Speaker 1: changes everything. How finance made civilization possible? This is an

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Speaker 1: important book from Princeton University Press. Sending out for Money

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Speaker 1: changes everything. This is a great song. This song is

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Speaker 1: thirty two years old. What is that about? Bad