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2024 Forecasting Follies

The Better Letter

As always, I lead with Wall Street, the markets, and the economy, the objects of my day job. From its January 22, 2018 inception through November 1, 2024, the fund lost 2.8 2024 wasn’t any different. How will the market perform? NYU’s Scott Galloway predicted that Elon Musk would sell Twitter. Risk Parity Fund.

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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

The Big Picture

He’s been a member of the Richmond Fed since 2018. 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. 00:12:04 [Speaker Changed] So you joined the Fed in 2018 and it was a very consequential seven years.

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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. 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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Saving Capitalism 1 Stock at a Time

David Nelson

All companies face the challenges of a slowing economy, rising inflation and a born-again Fed that is determined to bring inflation under control even if it means pushing the economy over the edge. Do the Math! Do the math! S&P 500 vs the Communication Sector. Alphabet (GOOGL) Meta (META) and SNAP.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting ajackson Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30 The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30. Berkshire’s investment portfolio holds about $186 billion in equities and $118 billion in cash equivalents and bonds as of March 31, 2018. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

However, the fact remains the economy remains strong, corporate profits are at record levels, unemployment is low, and interest rates remain at attractive levels despite nagging inflation ( see chart below ) and the removal of accommodative monetary policies by the Federal Reserve. Math Matters. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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