Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. While I disagree with this policy, from a practical perspective it just means you need to budget for this expense separately. I am guessing that you might feel the same way these days – most of us Americans are in the same boat.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

One, it doesn’t have a budget allocation from Congress. They’re a budget, they’re a check writing organization. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

And I think that has been true since 2009 until now. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. It’s much deeper than math.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

Everything was the same except, Chicago had in its budget to give me money for airfare to go visit. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. Some famous periods of reversals in market, the most famous spring of 2009 when we came off the GFC. He’s the genius in math. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. PhDs are very lucky.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Since Kickstarter’s launch in 2009, 18 million people have backed projects. Rental car agencies (Enterprise, Avis, Budget, etc.) The math when paying down debt is simple – if your loan is currently at 7% and you refinance at 3%, that’s equivalent to a 4% return on your money! Think about it.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? Squarespace, and I love those guys, they were really instrumental to the growth of Hodinkee, allowed me to design my own website in 2009 until probably 2012 or 2013, when we got a professional upgrade.

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