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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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The March to a $10 Trillion Company

Validea

In 2000, General Electric accounted for over 5% of the S&P 500 ( source ). The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. In 2000, the total value of the US stock market was $15.1

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

Mr. Money Mustache

For example, if the house brings in $2000 per month ($24,000 each year) and the sale price is $240,000, the next investor is buying a business with a price-to-earnings ratio of 10, because 240k/24k=10. Its just basic math. But if you manage to convince someone to hand over $480,000 for that same house, youve sold at a P/E of 20.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

1999, 2000, the internet was blowing up. The SNL crisis Tiger Chase had started, you know, in the wake of the internet melding down in 2000. 00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. And that was 25 years ago. Sales centers are, are more productive.

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The March to a $10 Trillion Company

Validea

In 2000, General Electric accounted for over 5% of the S&P 500 ( source ). The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. In 2000, the total value of the US stock market was $15.1

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C'mon Gen-X, Time To Rally

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

People entering the workforce in 2000 were not the 401k guinea pigs. If at 35 or 40 some sort of financial calculator told you your "number" is $1,300,000 at age 65 and at 55 you have $275,000, there's a low probability of hitting your number. The number you anchored to when you were younger is essentially meaningless.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.

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