The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How New York and California Botched Marijuana Legalization : Steep taxes and heavy regulation are making it hard for licensed pot sellers to operate in some states, driving more producers and buyers to illegal outlets.

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Math License Startup Government 268

The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If he had a pilot’s license, we’d suspend that. Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. But he doesn’t.”

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Numbers Education Management Math 90

The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. And so I remember Quincy told me, if you think you’re in the music business, and you don’t own music rights, publishing rights, licensing rights. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there.

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Banking Economics Economy Business Planning 141

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Talk to people who try and get licensed to do insurance things, or if there’s a failure to pay out a policy in the litigation that follows. MORGENSON: It stopped outperforming in like the mid-2000s or towards 2008. MORGENSON: Well, I’m very interested to hear you say it’s very robust on the state side.

Insurance 141

Insurance Healthcare Retail Medicine 141

The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

And then people will feel licensed to say what they had shut up about. But we know, and this is what at least I wasn’t sufficiently alert to in 2008, that self-interested or malevolent types can use behavioral biases to manipulate people. Okay, and they are designed to help people deal with their cognitive limits.

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Economics Media Government Numbers 245