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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. We evolved in an arithmetic world, so we are unprepared for the exponential math of finance.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Or why we need less math in music theory. ( Tablet ) see also Welcome to the New Military-Industrial Complex. That would be absurd, no? Each sentence should have its own organic length, unconnected to what came before or goes after. So why doesnt our music do that? Morgan , where she is co-head of commercial banking.

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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

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We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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10 Friday AM Reads

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technology into its search engine. ( Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. ( Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator?

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

The Big Picture

MARTIN: So I remember when I came home from elementary school one day, and my dad who was an electrical engineer, he used to design fuel gauges on airplanes, came home with this huge box. We’ve recently upgraded our systems to our next generation matching engine technology. Bob Bragg is my audio engineer. MARTIN: Exactly.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

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She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Many teachers are already using this system to “flip the classroom”, and my own boy and I used Khan Academy to help him cover second through eighth grade math in only a month. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined. That’s how efficient video learning can be! Awesome musician too!