The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 9, 2023

But we have to look beyond the big scary number syndrome here and put this figure into context. economy. ( We did the math : In all 50 states, it’s cheaper for the everyday American to fill up with electrons — and much cheaper in some regions such as the Pacific Northwest, with low electricity rates and high gas prices.

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Math Electronics Economy Numbers 130

Discipline Funds

MARCH 6, 2024

This meant that there was very little demand for debt and so increasing the supply of potential loans was like an apple cart salesman increasing the number of apples he sells with the hope that more supply would create its own demand. Not nothing, but certainly not enough to move the needle of a $30T economy.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jobs and services sector news painted a better picture of the economy on Thursday, but as the 10-year Treasury hit 4%, stock prices responded negatively. Math errors: Simple addition and subtraction mistakes can delay your return. Consider using electronic filing software that does the math automatically to avoid mistakes.

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

By Nick Maggiulli The fact that high beta firms tend to have lower quality and higher financial leverage is perhaps one good reason why the outperformance in bull markets is more than erased during bear markets By David Varadi Real math is painfully precise. Investment finance math is sales math.

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Steve Sanduski

AUGUST 4, 2022

Charles Schwab just released their 2022 RIA Benchmarking Study and I decided to crunch the numbers and see what the data shows. Crunch the Numbers. Simple math says the CAGR of NET NEW ASSETS (i.e., Various assumptions are built into my calculations but there’s no doubt net organic revenue growth is almost non-existent.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This is because consumers become concerned about the economy or have lost their jobs and means of income. Recession-proof businesses are usually in industries that are not severely impacted by a decline in the economy. Here are 14 good businesses to start in a bad economy: 1. What does a recession mean? Baby products.

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Food Economy Healthcare Economics 104

Nationwide Financial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The curve, however, continues to project cuts to the rate beginning next May, which seems optimistic given the tone of Fed officials and the math around getting inflation back close to their 2% target. Core CPI will likely grow, as the headline number benefits from falling gas prices, and shelter prices increase.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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Assets Management Portfolio Investing 144

Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

Run Your Numbers You need to get a handle on your various sources of income and where they are housed — as in, how easily you can access them when you need them. After you’ve done this math, you might be wondering if you have “enough,” and certainly that’s hard to assess when there are so many unknowns.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. We went from having religions where, you know, everything was a spirit, a tree, a rock, everything had a spirit, and then we went from that to theistic religions where there was some different number of gods.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The economy created 353,000 jobs in January, surprising to the upside. Job gains continue to support income growth, which in turn supports consumer spending and the overall economy. For a broad view of our expectations for the economy, stocks, and bonds in 2024, download our 2024 Market Outlook.

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Marketing Marketing Economy Manufacturing 97

The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

And he’s really moving the needle in terms of having people take control of their own financial life in a way that benefits not just them but the entire economy and all of society. They’re an underground economy because they don’t trust the mainstream economy. Number one, a school district is a business.

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Banking Economics Economy Business Planning 144

Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

And just to amplify everything even further, China has launched a batshit crazy (and medically impossible) “zero covid” policy, locking down hundreds of millions of its own people who can no longer produce or export the things that the rest of the world’s economy had grown to rely upon.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Benefits of work from home jobs The gig economy is booming. In fact, more than one-third of the US workforce participates in the gig economy (that is 36% to be precise). In real numbers, that works out to 57 million people! Accountant This requires some job training and a love of numbers. Experience required: None.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Clever Girl Finance

JUNE 21, 2023

Check out these 14 easy side hustles to make money you can start working on today: 14 Easy side hustles to make money fast If you need extra cash now and don’t have time to invest in starting your own business, don’t worry—you can still be part of the gig economy. It’s simple to get started with these side hustles.

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Food Retail Accounting Clients 52

Discipline Funds

MARCH 1, 2023

But this chart is interesting because the discrepancy has a fundamental impact on the future of home prices and the economy. Of course, this data is highly localized and we generally measure “inventory” by the number of units that are actually for sale. And that’s where the math on renting comes into play.

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David Nelson

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

God forbid the economy, or the consumer were strong. Outside of energy that mindset rained on just about every sector of the economy last year. Unfortunately, small companies are generally more tied to the economy. They need an economy that is picking up steam, not one that may finally be rolling over. Do the math.

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Economy Retail Sales Math 52

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I try to analyze the economy from the top. And to this day, we know when I have a view on the economy, or usually have a view on the economy or inflation, it’s usually driven because I read so many corporate earnings reports and trying to understand why they’re cutting inventory, why are they laying off people.

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Economy Numbers Portfolio Marketing 144

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.

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Banking Government Insurance Taxes 201

The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ). Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2

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Numbers Medicine Math Marketing 82

Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. All covered, with no co-pay and in an environment that feels to me like Presidential-level health care, in striking contrast to some of my past experiences where I felt like an anonymous numbered ticket in a sloshing sea of bureaucratic institutional medicine.

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Insurance Medical Medicine Healthcare 66

Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When it comes to your financial health, your income is one of the most important numbers in the equation. How might this number be affected in a freelance job? Let’s start by looking at the numbers in their simplest form. Now, let’s crunch some of the other numbers… $45k a year is how much… Total (gross) pay Hourly $21.63

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Taxes Numbers Math Management 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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Portfolio Investing Investments Numbers 130

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

With the economy reeling from the impact of the most recent pandemic and racial injustice at the forefront of many conversations, we cannot ignore the student loan crisis and its impact on black women. For white students, that number drops to 59.9%. The math for this adds up over years of work and can cost quite a bit of income.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Jan 08, 2023 Culture US birth rates are at record lows – even though the number of kids most Americans say they want has held steady [link] There is no mystery here. If you don’t have children while young, odds decrease that you will have children, and a higher number of them. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. BITTERLY MICHELL: … obviously, the United States, the global economy.

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Good Financial Cents

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite declining overall employment numbers in the field, there are close to 400,000 job openings annually for customer service representatives, according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics – a testament to how critical the industry is to the U.S. You must also possess solid math and cash-handling skills and be able to multitask.

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Communication Education Retail Banking 69

Clever Girl Finance

JULY 12, 2022

These numbers won’t be exact, as they’re subject to changes in the economy and other factors. Since you’re working on a weekly savings plan or bi-weekly savings plan, the next step is to do that math. You might use the number 52 if you actually get paid biweekly and not just twice a month. That works out to $192.30

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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Assets Investing Investments Management 261

Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

The great freeze on free money has arrived with a jolt as inflation cleaves through the global economy. We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

Anyone with an Internet connection can participate in the cryptocurrency economy. As you can see from those numbers, early Bitcoin investors who held on through the crypto’s ups and downs likely made a fortune. Every single Bitcoin transaction that has taken place is tracked in this public database.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. After all, we’re half the population—that’s billions of women with unique ideas, skillsets, and visions for the future.

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