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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

Math 130
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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

(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? Number one, a school district is a business. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

Banking 140
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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

Of course, it’s one thing to get strong numbers, but it’s even better when the data are strong for the right reasons. It measures the number of people aged 25-54 who are employed, as a percent of the total number within this cohort that could potentially be employed. in inflation-adjusted terms in 2023.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, there’s definitely a pre and post. I was econ and kind of geeky.

Clients 283
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: The whole pre-financial crisis decade or two, hedge funds crushed-crushed it. Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. Less, 20, 30%?

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A Collective Statistical Illiteracy

The Better Letter

It describes “a person’s inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.” To do math, neither maturity nor knowledge of human nature and experience are required. Lotteries are, by definition, long-shots. Make sure you’ve got your math correct. The largest possible sum of digits is 18.

Math 80
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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Their mainstay financial services practice, which was banking and equities, fell off a cliff. And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. And I realized I have his home number. And at the same time, the dot com bubble collapsed.