Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

With the economy reeling from the impact of the most recent pandemic and racial injustice at the forefront of many conversations, we cannot ignore the student loan crisis and its impact on black women. According to the American Association of University Women as of 2021, on average: white men borrow $29,862 while black women borrow $37,558.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

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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Good Financial Cents

MARCH 15, 2023

You must also possess solid math and cash-handling skills and be able to multitask. Despite declining overall employment numbers in the field, there are close to 400,000 job openings annually for customer service representatives, according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics – a testament to how critical the industry is to the U.S.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, I always say it depends on the economies or the scale of the business that you are considering.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … obviously, the United States, the global economy. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

But if you go back to the period before 2022, from 2019 to 2021, a 60/40 portfolio actually produced 14% returns over that time horizon, which is above the long-term average. Yes, the economy can clearly keep roaring along, which we’ve seen. They’re definitely trying to slow the economy down. DAVIS: It is not.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. 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. ” Nobody does. And lots of surprises.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

The economy wasn’t as dependent on the equity markets as necessarily as it is today, as we saw post ’08. I mean, obviously, 2020 and 2021 and 2022, we’re still in the midst of, but is there still an echo of ’08-’09 today? And so it’s one of these things that math works. But the Fed stepped in.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2024

These dumped a ton of cash into the economy all at once in 2020 and 2021. Reduced Immigration during both Trump & Biden Administrations; Under Trump, legal immigration fell around 1 million people each year; that continues under Biden during the pandemic years of 2021 and first half of 2022.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Your real business is having the best perspective of what is happening this moment in the economy. So, so let’s talk a little bit about the state of the economy today. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. Your side hustle. Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And it was day by day from the seat of, it was the month that the economy shut down. And it’s two dozen CEOs, investors, policy makers from like all across the economy. It’s kind of apparent some of these industries are going to be the first to really succumb to an economy shutting down. Did they self-selected?

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

You wrote this book in 2021 or at least finished it in 2021 and you described in the book what you see as an, quote, “investment winter ahead.” And so, it’s very sort of, I don’t know, math oriented or algebra-oriented type of thing as opposed to great stories which drive most investment passions. ILMANEN: Yes.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: And by 2021, they were extracting 70 billion in dividend recapitalizations. And it really became very evident in a 2021 study by academics, I think University of Chicago, UPenn, NYU, that studied long-term mortality at nursing homes that were owned by private equity and compared that with nursing homes. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

They 00:38:39 [Speaker Changed] Price insensitive, they 00:38:41 [Speaker Changed] Right, they cared what the lower mortgage rate did to the economy. Well, I think that same thing’s been happening in commercial now for the last, you know, since 2021 is that physical occupancy is the leading indicator to economic occupancy.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 29, 2024

This was the lowest rate of inflation we’ve seen since March of 2021 right before the big spike. We’re now at a point that I’d argue looks somewhat similar to early 2021 when rates were still 0%, but inflation was starting to shoot higher. Core PCE came in at 2.78% on Friday. or even higher.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. So here’s the math, Barry. It’s gonna take a while to integrate, integrate those folks back into other parts of the economy. You know, all of these things.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. ” 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. I wrote a, a column in 2021 for Bloomberg, “What My Worst Trades Taught Me About Investing.:

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I actually left active professor in July of 2021, after 45 years of teaching at Wharton. And it’s been virtually impossible for any value strategy to have overcome the great bull market of the big tech companies of the last 15 years which probably ended in, you know, early ‘20 or late 2021 or ’20, early ’21. RITHOLTZ: Yup.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. in 2018, in the European Union in 2020, in Australian in 2021. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. How many do you have in your fleet?

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