The Better Letter

JULY 19, 2025

None of us wants to end up on the wrong side of maybe (or, as math geeks would have it, the wrong side of variance). Algorithms control our social media feeds, the advertising we see, the entertainment (“content”) put in front of us, and how American business interacts with consumers. It allows you to optimize your process.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Here’s your investing playbook.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

And while Monte Carlo simulations have made it possible for advisors to create retirement projections that seem to have a reasonable basis in math and data, there has been limited research as to whether Monte Carlo models really perform as advertised – in other words, whether the real-world results of retirees over time would have aligned with (..)

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The Big Picture

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. Why do so many people think he’s evil? (

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Abnormal Returns

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

barrons.com) Bond math looks a lot different from a year ago, let alone six months. ft.com) Netflix ($NFLX) wants advertisers to pay a premium to run ads. Markets T-bill yields are approaching 4%. morningstar.com) Just how bad is the drawdown in the 60/40 portfolio this year? priceactionlab.com) Apple A look at the new iPhone 14s.

Math 130

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Good Financial Cents

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

To get started, advertise your services on freelance marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr. You can become a tutor in almost any subject, but science and math are two of the most profitable niches. As you know, social media advertising has replaced print media and classified ads to a large degree.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

Advertise locally and have students come to you for lessons in piano, violin, guitar, or whatever your specialty is. Use your art skills and graphic design software to make logos, infographics, advertisements, web banners, and more. If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be the best side hustle for women who are great at math and business. Advertise your services around your town or city. Take advantage of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to advertise your services. Then start creating the product.

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Good Financial Cents

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

They do advertise, but you can also promote your work on the site through social media. All kinds of employers in every industry advertise for jobs on the site. Tutoring If you’re a whiz at math, science, or English, you can tutor students in your community who need to improve their grades.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 19, 2022

You will need to have a publication with a strong existing following and reach out to advertisers to sponsor you. If you have analytical and math skills, you can put them to good use here. Affiliate marketers make an average of about $80,000 per year in the United States. That’s hardly a meager salary. Pet sitter . Accountant .

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 10, 2022

Lenders heavily advertise these as the perfect solution for situations exactly like those you're facing. You could start by advertising your services on local social media pages, target WhatsApp groups or even put up flyers in your neighborhood. Things to avoid when we desperately need money. Pet-sitting and dog-walking.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 8, 2024

You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be one of the best side jobs for women who are great at math and business management. You can advertise your services around your town or city. Use social media platforms and word of mouth to advertise. Start a laundry service Yes, you read that right!

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I think, you know, what we’ve, what we’ve learned about Twitter was they may have had a lot of advertisers, but I’m not sure how well it was actually working for users. I like these big advertisers, but they don’t wanna be associated with that. So here’s the math, Barry. You all have phones.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 6, 2023

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. In fact, many small business owners use the internet to advertise their services and connect with their customers. Marketing isn’t just for big corporations. You can also teach virtually.

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Virtually every article, advertisement, marketing piece, guide and e-book that appears on the internet has been written by someone. If you have expertise in any common subjects, such as math and science, and you have some extra time, you may have all you need to become a tutor. Difficulty Level: High. Difficulty Level: Moderate.

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Clever Girl Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

In addition, you can advertise posters around town to generate broader interest. Work as a grocery store cashier You could be a grocery store cashier if you're good with math and don't mind scanning coupons and small talk. Make money with ad revenues You can earn money from advertisements that appear throughout your videos.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Advertise with Your Car 22. Here are six different ways that you can make extra money licensing music: YouTuber Wedding/Videographer Indie Film Soundtrack Indie Film Trailer Corporate video Advertisement These are all passive ways to be an online creator, where your initial time investment pays off with royalties. Rent Your Car 18.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And when used for ROE, as per the basic rule of math, if the denominator decreases, the fraction as whole increases i.e, The consistency in such high returns can be attributed to its focus on driving consumer meaningful innovations backed by significant distribution expansion and strong advertising. higher ROE. respectively.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

You don’t need to be an advertising professional to do this, only someone who knows their way around Facebook and is willing to put in the effort. After all, small businesses don’t have advertising departments. One popular way to do that is to run Facebook ads for local businesses. Two examples are Wyzant and TutorMe.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Barry Ritholtz: The old, the old joke, half of our advertising dollars are wasted. 00:19:51 [Speaker Changed] What, what’s a better advertisement for a mutual fund than the fund manager having millions and millions of dollars invested in that exact fund? And I just thought it was, it was really a neat way to, to learn about it.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Advertise yourself as a virtual event planner and offer services online, including Zoom meetings, schedule creation, vendor contacts, etc. But if you don’t mind the work, it’s one of the best work from home jobs for people who love math. Experience required: None, but some organization and planning skills are important.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So for those people who may not have seen it, there is a famous documentary, I believe it’s called “The Trader” that follows Paul Tudor Jones around. And so it’s one of these things that math works. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk about betting on natural gas. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We didn’t really have to worry about marketing or advertising, didn’t spend time on podcasts or TV.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing. ADMATI: Yes.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk a little bit about what Operation HOPE does, but I want to start by asking, why don’t we teach financial literacy in school? BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : Now, if I remember correctly, late nineties cracks in the facade were already showing of, you know, the, the monolithic radio, TV advertising world. Big advertisers would never give Barstool Sports a look the way they do now. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: No rollerblading.

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Recruitment Management Numbers Banking 144

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it. So that’s the math.

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Abnormal Returns

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Strategy The math on the 60/40 portfolio looks a lot different than it did a year ago. drorpoleg.com) How Amazon's ($AMZN) advertising business got so big. awealthofcommonsense.com) There is a difference between picking and choosing. humbledollar.com) Companies Nvidia ($NVDA) has succeeded with a distributed workforce.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. We thought it was free advertising for their index, but I guess guess they thought that their index was pre advertising for our fund or something.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The math never seems to work out. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about the metrics of giving, go back 20, 30 years, and the question was sort of like advertising. We see it every time, some billionaires’ stadium gets paid for by taxpayers.

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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Math is powerful. Winning as a gambler is tough generally , but there are typically several Super Bowl bets where simple math demonstrates that the line is off (in terms of reality if not in terms of equalizing the total bets). If you know and can apply it, math is a major edge in gambling about football and elsewhere.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And I think in all those meetings, just trying to think through, get in front of where we’re going, whether that’s markets positioning our business, people, strategies, et cetera.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

And I do think besides just the advertising aspect, I think one huge benefit to our business is we hire a lot of PhDs, including professors. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. He’s the genius in math. So it’s really not giving away some of the stuff, which I think does exist, that is really unique.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? CLYMER: So early on, we had advertisers, and back then, the cost of running Hodinkee was my time, which was effectively free, and then hosting fees on Squarespace and elsewhere. We had Patek as an advertiser.

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