Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. Further Reading: I was quite moved by this piece that Cloud Medical’s Dr. David Tusek wrote about “ the ten heartbreaks ” that led him to work since 2009 towards accelerating this better way to do healthcare.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

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 it restarted in, I wanna say March of 2009, but like onlya little bit. It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

percent (2009). This is the best thing I read this week (it combines magic, music, mystery, and math); this is the best thing I saw. Over the past 50 years (1972-2021), the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note has returned as much as 32.81 percent in a calendar year (1982) and lost as much as 11.12 The saddest. The sweetest.

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Fortune Financial

MARCH 11, 2023

If that is the case, you certainly cannot find evidence of it in company results; since 2009, the first full year in which Altria was fully separate from Philip Morris International (PM) and thus a pure play on U.S. With that being said, some might argue with me about why the stock has performed so poorly the last several years.

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The Irrelevant Investor

MAY 22, 2018

I would agree with Ben's thoughts, which is that the math says no, but the psychological constraints say yes. By June 2009*, stocks had trailed long-term government bonds over the previous 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 years. Since June 2009, stocks are up 250%, long-term government bonds are up 60%.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 In 2009, New Jersey grandmother Patricia Demauro set a craps world record over four hours and 18 minutes by rolling a pair of dice 154 times before crapping out. quintillion.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. And then I was looking for something more applied. The second is excess returns.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

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. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. This was, so you had the 2008, 2009 economic crisis.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

Bitcoin was created in 2009 by a mysterious figure who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. When it first launched in 2009, a single bitcoin was only worth a few cents, but at its peak, it was worth around $60,000. But while Nakamoto is known as the currency’s founder, it is not controlled by any single individual.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, one of our first ETF was our China Consumer ETF that we launched in 2009. Wait, markets go down?

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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. 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. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

And I think that has been true since 2009 until now. It’s much deeper than math. So, they just looked at me like I was an alien. I looked at them like, I don’t really care what you say. I’m going on air, I’m going to say what I want. And I go, I simply don’t accept the premise anymore.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

Unfortunately for these people, the minimum wage has not increased since 2009, nor, to state the obvious, has it kept up with inflation. If you're curious to learn how the math behind this, read this piece from Econompic. While this represents just a small slice of the working population, another 20.6

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And what we figured out in 2009, really when we started buying homes is that we made the bet that it, I mean, it wasn’t a very exotic bet, but we made the bet that the subprime mortgage market wasn’t coming back at all. And so, so starting in 2009, we, we, there was no flip market. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

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. First time I learned poker to play in this Math for America Tournament, I didn’t know a whole of them. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

Following the financial crisis and the Fed cutting rates, economy and the market starts recovering in late 2009 and then 2010 and we kept hearing from a lot of different value corners, hey, everything is richly priced. Let’s talk a little bit about the pushback to low expected returns. Bonds are the most expensive. Stocks are pricey.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And I said, I’ll go get a master’s and things will be better in 2009, because these are one year programs. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. RITHOLTZ: Right. He was right on the thesis.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Since Kickstarter’s launch in 2009, 18 million people have backed projects. 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! You can join Kickstarter to launch a project or to help back others’ projects.

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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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. He lost 40 pounds and he eventually went to the prison doctor and they diagnosed him as having pancreatitis and gallstones and needing an operation which was scheduled for the 1st of August 2009.

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