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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. =. The number of friends with whom you can have a meaningful relationship. Since 2005 I made “being a Dad” my primary goal in life, quitting my career to do so. How much work you do.

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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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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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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

Carson Wealth

Of course, it’s one thing to get strong numbers, but it’s even better when the data are strong for the right reasons. It measures the number of people aged 25-54 who are employed, as a percent of the total number within this cohort that could potentially be employed. in inflation-adjusted terms in 2023.

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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

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. And in the 2000 at the 2005 conference, it’s kind of wild. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

That’s a shocking number. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. RITHOLTZ: Really, that’s a big number. And this was back in 2005 or 2006. It’s very hard to, you know, getting numbers on this stuff, they really don’t want to help.

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