Money Talks: Can Math Really Crack the Stock Market? (Encore)

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The “Fama–French model” is a Nobel laureate-designed tool for predicting the stock market. It guides hundreds of billions in investments. The problem? Its numbers keep shifting. For this Money Talks, Felix Salmon chats with Planet Money host Mary Childs about her deep dive for Bloomberg into finance mathematics. They question the nature of investing, markets, and reality itself. Mary is also the author of The Bond King. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our regular show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is crypto perfect?
0:01.9	Nope.
0:02.7	But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.
0:06.0	And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.
0:12.1	Crypto is no different.
0:13.5	It's new.
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0:22.6	Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the
0:26.7	money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something
0:29.4	goes wrong. Happy holidays, folks. It's Felix here. We at Slate Money are taking a little bit of a
0:35.9	break. So we're rerunning the fabulous Mary
0:38.9	Charles interview from a few months ago. Mary Charles is kind of the best financial journalist
0:44.3	in audio journalism, if not in journalism generally. She wrote a fantastic piece for Bloomberg
0:51.2	about valuations in the stock market. She is very funny. And if you want to know
0:57.7	what that has to do with spherical cows, listen on. Hello. Welcome. Hello!
1:14.3	Welcome to Money Talks from Slaked Money.
1:18.8	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, and this is a special one because I get to nerd out with the most awesome and fabulous person in the world.
1:27.9	Miss Mary Childs.
1:29.8	Hi.
1:30.7	Hi, Mary.
1:31.7	Hi, I'm really honored to be here.
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