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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

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I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. So since 2010 there hasn’t been a real credit crisis to really test the quality of these of these products. For, for, and yet all the medical schools seem to be filled Velina Peneva : Exactly. But for me, this was not an option. at Wellesley.

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2024 Forecasting Follies

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So far, since 2010, solar energy has outperformed every single prediction. For example, Michael Moore, famous for being one of the few people who predicted Donald Trump’s election win in 2016, confidently declared that Mr. Trump would not win again in 2024 ( Do The Math: Trump Is Toast ). billion users.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

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During the 2010 World Cup, Paul the Octopus picked the correct winner of eight-straight matches, including the final (his odds of doing so were one in 256 ). 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 quintillion.

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Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

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The Journal did the math as follows: California had 726,600 people working in fast-food and other limited-service eateries in January, down 1.3% Looking at the chart above in table format (from 2010), it becomes quite evident that, on a NSA basis, the trough in this series occurs, with precision, in January. Every January.

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Catastrophizing Debt

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October 2, 2017) Deficit Chicken Hawks vs Ronald Reagan (July 13, 2010) Politics & Investing The post Catastrophizing Debt appeared first on The Big Picture.

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Join The Bond Market Resistance!

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The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. I found an interview I did with Seeking Alpha in late 2010 that made its way to NASDAQ.com. Here's the relevant excerpt. It turned out it did matter starting in late 2021.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

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Let’s talk about what took place on the flash crash back in 2010. I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. Let’s talk about some of those. These are all old data systems.