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The Sweet Spot

Mr. Money Mustache

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. Since 2005 I made “being a Dad” my primary goal in life, quitting my career to do so. How much work you do. How much society happens to value your work. The Nitty Gritty of Traditional Success.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. 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? And I love that.

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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

That’s well above the 2005-2019 pace of 1.5%, and it is currently higher than what it was in the late 1990s. By my math, there have been 57 Super Bowls and 22 different winners. Up Goes Productivity The other important data point we received last week was productivity. I broke the data down by franchise and city.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. If you go back to 2005, when I joined Orbis, the bricks was all the rage.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. To find the answer, CXO collected and investigated 6,584 forecasts from 2005-2012 for the U.S. Stop with the math.`

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

It was a wild ride because by the time you got, well, so in 2005, we went on a road show trying to tell people what we had learned, and there wasn’t a lot of reception. And in the 2000 at the 2005 conference, it’s kind of wild. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Those types of excess savings were sort of the culprit for the conundrum in 2005 or whatever it was. And so, I write about it both — I do know, the simple maths about it how you can double shop ratios for uncorrelated strategies and then remind that it’s really difficult to find for uncorrelated strategies in long-only world.

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