Good Financial Cents

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Tutoring If you’re a whiz at math, science, or English, you can tutor students in your community who need to improve their grades. Almost any subject qualifies, but math, science, and English are usually the most in demand. I’m trying to earn some extra money to buy some books because I really like to read.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Typical tasks include schedule planning, email management, answering phone calls, data entry, booking travel, and managing social media. Proofreading skills are useful in many arenas – from transcripts for court reporters to the world of book writing. Recommended places to start: With a book on designing and building websites.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How New York and California Botched Marijuana Legalization : Steep taxes and heavy regulation are making it hard for licensed pot sellers to operate in some states, driving more producers and buyers to illegal outlets.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

She has a, a fascinating career, and the new book is really interesting that basically teaches people to, you know, take control of their own careers, develop a vision and a plan, and then execute it. So I know in the book, you write about wanting to come to New York City and being like, gee, this is a little intimidating.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He is the author of several books on the psychology of self. We know a little bit of math. But people feel that they have license to comment on something that lies far outside of their actual area of expertise. And if his name is familiar, he is the Dunning in Dunning Kruger. Welcome, professor.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

He has written five books with more coming. By the way, my last book is “Up From Nothing.” You tell a story in one of your books of a banker who shows up at your elementary school class and that kick-started your interest in finance? But in capitalism and free enterprise, there is no rule book. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. We were one of the last to get what’s called a value added license to the compus stat database.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I have one line in the book where I say Ross Johnson is totally insane and leave the book. And the book, by the way, is quite accurate. But the book was quite accurate. And this is why, you know, again, in the book, there’s a meeting where Ross Johnson comes in to meet Ted, I’m a partner.

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The Big Picture

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And a deal code is just a numerical moniker that we put on each trading idea within the book. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue. 00:49:30 [Speaker Changed] You mentioned books earlier.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

[Barry Ritholtz] 00:00:07 This week on the podcast Michael Lewis out with a brand new book on Sam Bankman-Fried and F T X doing the Circuit. Talked about the process of writing the book, what it’s like to go on 60 Minutes and know that social media is gonna come at you. And the book is similar. Really enjoyed it.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. Would you license these models to me? You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. And I just caught the bug. Oh yeah, for sure.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Her last book was a bestseller, “Reckless Endangerment” is all about the mortgage crisis. The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. “Hey, I’m going to write a book in 40 years.”

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The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

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. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t. I don’t know. I’m Barry Riol.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

So you co-author two books with two Nobel laureates and you practically write a third one with George Lucas. RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) SUNSTEIN: Writing a book with Dick Thaler was not crazy fun, but was really fun because he’s fun. In fact, the whole book is horrible. And I had a title, but I didn’t have a book.

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