Slate Money - Money Talks: Can Math Really Crack the Stock Market?
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:23.6 | Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello! Hello Welcome to Money Talks from Sleeked Money. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Felix Ammon of Axios and this is a special one because I get to nerd out with the most awesome and fabulous person in the world. |
| 0:55.8 | Miss Mary Childs. |
| 0:57.8 | Hi. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi Mary. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi, I'm really honored to be here and thank you for that intro it's mutual |
| 1:03.0 | introduce yourself Mary who are you I'm Mary Childs I'm a co-host of planet money |
| 1:08.0 | I'm the author of the book the bond king which Felix can admire in my |
| 1:11.3 | background about bill gross no less bill gross which Felix can admire in my background. About Bill Gross in the Bond Market. |
| 1:16.0 | And then I also just wrote this article for Bloomberg Markets magazine |
| 1:20.0 | that was pretty wonky, pretty in the weeds and a bat signal for Felix salmon. |
| 1:25.4 | It's so good. Your article is an amazing article and it opened my eyes to something that I guess in principle I knew but in practice I'd never thought about |
| 1:37.4 | which is that we like to think of stock prices as being these objectively true things and we can just |
| 1:47.5 | look them up on the internet or look them up on the consolidated ticker or |
| 1:51.3 | something and it is a fact. And then when you kind of like start |
| 1:57.1 | clawing underneath the service you you realize that with a little bit with individual stocks, but certainly when it comes into sort of aggregates of stocks, |
| 2:07.0 | there's just a lot of very interesting fuzziness in here, and not everything you think is true is actually true and you have this amazing story and it took you were telling me it took you like 11 months |
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