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TikTokInvestors

The Big Picture

I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match. The Math Doesn’t Add Up ( Rolling Stone , January 24, 2024) How TikTok Is Wiring Gen Z’s Money Brain ( WSJ , May 4, 2024) _ 1.

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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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

KEY POINT For advisors: When you look at the illustration and you see an illustrated rate that is 5, 6, 7% based on the maximum AG 49 rate, which is the cap applied to the historical data, as an advisor you should ask for a much lower number, such as 2-4%. He is also the Executive Editor of The Life Product Review since 2012.

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The Better Letter: Say What?! (Part 6)

The Better Letter

Make Fewer Decisions It’s simple math. “You’ll see I wear only grey or blue suits,” then-President Barack Obama told Michael Lewis in 2012. If we can up that number some, we’ll improve our decision-making a lot. ” There are other ways of reducing the number of decisions we make.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

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and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Michael Lewis ] 00:06:54 [Speaker Changed] So going back to about, I dunno, maybe 2012, I’d had made several runs at writing about crypto, mainly at the behest of crypto people because they wanted attention. I thought so. Oh, really?

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. To find the answer, CXO collected and investigated 6,584 forecasts from 2005-2012 for the U.S. Stop with the math.`

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