Good Financial Cents

JULY 3, 2023

Calculation Breakdown Let’s break down the math to find out how much you could earn annually with a $30 hourly wage: Consider an average workweek of 40 hours and an average year consisting of 52 weeks. Keep in mind that this calculation represents the gross annual salary, not accounting for taxes, insurance, 401K, or deductions.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, if we really stretched 10 times net income, I think if we find the hot buyer, we can get the 10 times, you know, with no adjustments, no trickery after tax net income, that would be a great price for most businesses. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! One of the benefits of an FSA is that it can help people save money on taxes. FSAs are a great way for people to save money on their healthcare costs, but not everyone has access since these accounts are offered by employers.

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Good Financial Cents

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, by doing a little math, you can easily determine your hourly wage from your annual salary. represents your gross hourly rate before taxes or other deductions. every two weeks, before taxes and other deductions like health insurance premiums, FICA, or insurance. How Much Is $55000 a Year After Taxes? Biweekly Pay.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. Very different fields.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So for a taxable investor, hedge funds generally aren’t tax efficient. And when you look at the assets that are invested, the three trillion in hedge funds, I would guess that north of 90% of that are in institutions that don’t pay taxes. It’s part of their own tax planning. I like Buffett’s idea.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. As it did, I worked for a very large syndicator right out of school, which was right around the time the tax laws changed. But in those days, there were very tax driven investment. I have no family history.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. there’s a big focus on how do we optimize for tax efficiency, too. It’s different wealth regimes, it’s different tax regimes. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency. 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.

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Good Financial Cents

AUGUST 19, 2023

EXPERT TIP That brings us back to simple math – multiplying your annual income times the number of years your family’s living expenses will need to be covered. Health Insurance If your family relies on your work for healthcare, take notice. This alone can require a $1 million life insurance policy.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. And the difficulty with healthcare is that you are not supposed to put profits ahead of patients. RITHOLTZ: How did private equity healthcare, senior living, nursing homes, ERs, hospitals, do during the COVID pandemic? MORGENSON: Right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 2, 2024

Healthcare minimum wage. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge. There should be no surprise here.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

Burger King Tim Hortons, I remember very clearly because it was in the middle of those waves of kind of tax dodgy, those inversion deals. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Take healthcare, the healthcare really is going to require systems level change to really revolutionize how we think about our health. Some of the key partners you need in the healthcare space are big hospitals like Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, or Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, or Johns Hopkins in Maryland, or MD Anderson in Texas.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

And then we brought on our third partner, Gary Bennett, who had sold his company to SalesForce and we were doing a lot of enterprise and healthcare. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. How do I go about protecting this giant pool of capital and how do I not get killed tax wise?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And they said as a result of them earning zero, the $230 million of taxes that was paid in the previous year is paid in error and we’d like that money back. It is $2 billion on the ship.

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Government Banking Numbers Investing 312

The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: Yeah, we probably need a progressive income tax or something and jobs programs and educational opportunity. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. I mean, what sort of a country has that sort of thing?

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Economics Media Government Numbers 245