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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

That’s not even math. On a related note, I had an email exchange with a Tony Lima – who definitely wants you to know that he got a PhD from Stanford – about a piece he posted here. You sent reporter Michael Hiltzik data from 2023 to show that fast-food employment is up. The wage hike took place Apr 1 2024. GovPressOffice.

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10 Weekend Reads

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New atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change.( Or why we need less math in music theory. ( SF Standard ) Is It Time to Redefine Time? That would be absurd, no? Each sentence should have its own organic length, unconnected to what came before or goes after.

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At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence

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Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. None of it matters.

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Some Other Forms of Wealth

A Wealth of Common Sense

There are many definitions of wealth. Your financial situation is some combination of math and emotions so a rich life means different things to different people. Some people equate wealth to your income level. Others assume having a lot of stuff must mean you’re wealthy.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

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I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And my mom’s a speech pathologist, so our dinner table conversation definitely had a business orientation, especially a small business owner. And so I definitely learned a lot there. Definitely.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

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And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. But I think it’s definitely changing, Barry, because, you know, you see more and more fintech platforms and robo-advisors that in a way, are making accessing financial markets easier for more and more investors in in Spain.

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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

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I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. People’s definition of long-term was too short. It didn’t matter how I did it, whether I balanced monthly or quarterly or annually, or I use thresholds. Year after year, that 5%, some years it was 4%, some years was 7%, but averaged around 5%.