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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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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

The Big Picture

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. Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Peter Mallouk, CEO of Creative Planning, which manages over $300 billion in client assets.

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The 16 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Event planning. Tying into the ideas above, event planning is another industry that involves a ton of multitasking and coordinating details. Learn more about starting an event planning business. Bookkeeping and accounting.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

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. Which is really a good plan for life itself. Awesome musician too!

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, in Q2, we heard a lot that recession wasn’t the base case, but they’re — they’re planning. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I love statistics.

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The 48 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Travel plann ing If you love to plan things and have a lot of knowledge about great travel deals and flights, you might be interested in being a travel planner or travel agent.

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