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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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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

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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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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

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I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. Peter Nicolina is my audio engineer. For, for, and yet all the medical schools seem to be filled Velina Peneva : Exactly. But for me, this was not an option. And what I decided to do is just experiment and see what else I could do. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Steve Laipply, Global Co-Head of Bond ETFs at BlackRock

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It’s sort of like math with dollar signs attached to it. It was about, you know, I love math statistics, all that stuff. John Wasserman is my audio engineer. Steve Laipply : So I had a good friend who said, Hey, I’m taking finance. I really like it. Maybe give it a shot. I took a finance class, really liked it a lot.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

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But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. My audio engineer is John Wasserman. They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying. Anna Luke is my producer, Sean Russo is my researcher.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

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00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I, you know, I, I do do the math when I, when I do some of my, my chats with the younger folks on the, on the team and I say, okay, real growth inflation term premium, you see this thing, it’s been zero or negative for the last 15 years.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

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Obviously math, there’s a ton of symbolic logic wherever you look, that classic syllogism, right? I find, you know, I was always in high school, my favorite math was, was geometry because everything was a puzzle to me. Peter Olino is my engineer. Absolutely. And, and I find that fascinating. How do you solve the problem?

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