2013 Economics Math 
The Big Picture
DECEMBER 18, 2024
@TBPInvictus here Our story so far : California has been raising its minimum wage for the past decade, starting at $8/hour through 2013. ” A bit of quick math: 726,600/0.987 = 736,170 (starting point). from last September [2023], when the state backed a deal for the increased wages.” 726,600 – 736,170 = -9,570.
The Big Picture
JULY 15, 2025
But before we get to that, let’s start with Bachelor’s in economics from Hamilton, MBA from NYU. And a friend of mine who had gotten fired from this economic consulting firm, got a job at Chase Econometrics, IDC, and said, you have to come over here. Barry Ritholtz : I’m, I’m thrilled to have you. Absolutely.
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The Big Picture
JUNE 16, 2025
Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.
The Big Picture
JUNE 2, 2025
He’s a super intelligent, thoughtful guy, very well versed in business economics and monetary policy. And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. I found this conversation absolutely fascinating. And so I made that transition.
The Big Picture
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
We’ll get to where you work at JP Morgan, but economics bachelor’s from Columbia MBA from Harvard. So I decided to become an economics major and a psychology minor. So the intersection of psychology and economics became really interesting. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting.
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up. 00:44:49 [Speaker Changed] Correct?
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