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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

This is as true for professionals as it is for amateurs; it’s also true in music, film, sports, television, and economic and market forecasting. What does the endless stream of news, social media, TikToks, Tweets, magazines, and television do to our ability to make good decisions? Why are we constantly prodded to take action now!

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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

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They ignored seasonality; they they mixed the match data from completely different series; they cherry, picked starting and stopped dates for their analysis that bore no relationship to the underlying economic trends. ” A bit of quick math: 726,600/0.987 = 736,170 (starting point). 726,600 – 736,170 = -9,570.

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10 Monday AM Reads

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But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. Quanta Magazine ) • Why More Americans Are Using Fake License Plates and Getting Away : With It The old system of traffic control is breaking down. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money. I’m a sore loser,” he said. “I I don’t like to lose.”

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Top 40 under 40.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

The first big article, I think it was Fortune Magazine, Bethany McLean took a year for the stock to collapse a full year. So here’s the math, Barry. We’re all, I mean, it’s like a Bloomberg Stream, constantly sharing news analysis, politics, economics, company specific venture capital, because we care.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

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So, I was sitting there reading Industry Standard, remember that magazine? And I was learning about money, reading all the books, all the magazines, watching the shows, and I was also studying social psychology. It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Well, everybody thought they were a genius including me in 1999, 2000.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand.

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