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Math Problems

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The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

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And just to amplify everything even further, China has launched a batshit crazy (and medically impossible) “zero covid” policy, locking down hundreds of millions of its own people who can no longer produce or export the things that the rest of the world’s economy had grown to rely upon. ” Well, how interesting.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Bracketology (2024 Edition)

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Five 11-seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, and UCLA in 2021. 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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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

The economy wasn’t as dependent on the equity markets as necessarily as it is today, as we saw post ’08. RITHOLTZ: Or the flash crash in 2010 and 2011. And so it’s one of these things that math works. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Really, what I would think is getting to my natural home and that happened in 2011. ! 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. What is that role like?

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. If you were alive and writing checks in 2006 to 2011. LINDZON: Tries to meet Twitter’s quarter in 2011 comes home with like a 30 mil. So this is the math that I applied.

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