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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

Obviously math, there’s a ton of symbolic logic wherever you look, that classic syllogism, right? I find, you know, I was always in high school, my favorite math was, was geometry because everything was a puzzle to me. Absolutely. Here’s the fact pattern, here’s the applicable Absolutely. How do you solve the problem?

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

The Big Picture

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. Problem is, the math doesn’t work 01:20:33 [Speaker Changed] Well, you know, math, who really believes numbers should add up. I mean that was, that was the problem. The problem is Japan is running two 50%. And their economy seems to be doing just fine.

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Market Commentary: Markets Perk Up but Macro Outlook Still Messy

Carson Wealth

Early 1987, March 2009, August 2011 (after the US debt downgrade), and the COVID lows in March 2020. The math is just Earnings * (Price / Earnings) = Price, since the Earnings parts cancel. Having two such strong up days occur within nine days of each other is extremely rare, but another clue the bulls are trying to take back control.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Six 11 seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, UCLA in 2021, and NC State last year. However, since 2011, at least one seven seed or lower has made it to the Final Four every year except 2019. The 11 and 10 seeds win about four times in ten. quintillion. trillion.

Numbers 76
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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

The Big Picture

I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. Now, the article came, I believe, at the end of nine, 2011 when gold was coming off of a run of very high return (1900 and change or so if memory serves?). You start from 2011, it was a disaster. And that was that was a pretty good marker.

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Have Bonds Failed?

The Irrelevant Investor

The S&P 500 just experienced its worst month since September 2011, falling 6.3% The math tells us that. With such a steep decline, the investor in a classic sixty/forty portfolio might have expected bonds to provide protection to their portfolio. The average return for bonds over these 100 different periods was 8.13%.

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Does Bert change how RIAs should write and optimize their articles and website content?

Midstream Marketing

We all remember the great Google PANDA algorithm update of 2011… and the chaos that unfolded in the immediate aftermath. As I begin to hear more and more about Google’s algorithm update in early October, naturally I was worried that we may be in for a repeat of 2011. The BERT Algorithm Update: Breaking Things Down.