The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. And so the idea of writing this, this magazine piece was partly like, selfishly for me.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The first big article, I think it was Fortune Magazine, Bethany McLean took a year for the stock to collapse a full year. So here’s the math, Barry. . ’cause people just aren’t gonna be believe that a company like Google can be dethroned. I have a vivid recollection of the news coming out about Enron being a fraud.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. But as that reputation expands outwards to become fame, you get the “reward” of constant coverage in gossip magazines and waking up to find photographers and news reporters on your front lawn.

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Clever Girl Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Once you know your weekly or monthly income, you can do the simple math of calculating how much 70% would be. Subscriptions (magazines, trade publications, etc.) More accurately, 70% of your take-home pay, or net income after taxes, not pre-tax income. That’s the figure you need to keep all of your life’s expenses under.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 6, 2023

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Find your niche, whether that’s creating illustrations for children’s books, webcomics, magazines, or even greeting cards. You can find gigs on sites like Fiverr and Upwork.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

So, I was sitting there reading Industry Standard, remember that magazine? And I was learning about money, reading all the books, all the magazines, watching the shows, and I was also studying social psychology. It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Well, everybody thought they were a genius including me in 1999, 2000.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will go. ( Quanta Magazine ). • The Atlantic ). •

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Quanta Magazine ) • Bloomberg is contemplating life without its founder : Michael Bloomberg is lining up succession and one of the largest charitable donations in history. Financial Times ) • Is the Bitcoin Comeback for Real? MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett was asked for his reassessment of an article he contributed to in 1999 for Fortune magazine predicting lower future investment returns based in part on after-tax corporate profits not staying above 6% of GDP, given that profits had run consistently higher in recent years.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett was asked for his reassessment of an article he contributed to in 1999 for Fortune magazine predicting lower future investment returns based in part on after-tax corporate profits not staying above 6% of GDP, given that profits had run consistently higher in recent years.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

You, you grow up in, in London, you graduate Cambridge and you start at Euro Money Magazine in, in London. And that’s when I decided to move to New York City and I joined Forbes Magazine as a glorified fact checker and immediately doubled my salary moving from London. I got a piece coming out in the a RP magazine.

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The Better Letter

MAY 23, 2024

” Its opening line begins, “It was twenty years ago today… ” Twenty years later, Rolling Stone magazine named it the greatest album of all-time. Despite what some academic types may claim , the idea that math is subjective is more than a little bit nuts.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

We had Ziff Davis magazines that we sold to Mr. Son and started Masayoshi Son’s career. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? And so the other great deals we did in the ‘90s, though, Gulfstream jet — RITHOLTZ: Sure. And the question is, you know, how high we can build? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too. Interesting.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 16, 2023

Just a $20 Tip : The Brutal Math of Uber Eats and DoorDash Delivery drivers were hailed as pandemic heroes. Now it’s fighting back : The Netherlands’ most notorious conspiracy theorist is now in prison. ( Ars Technica ) • At FTX, Multimillion-Dollar Expenses Were Approved by Emoji : Report outlines control failures at the failed crypto firm.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

New York Times Magazine ) • Wall Street Math Wizards Are Decoding Private-Market Returns : A small band of quants is shining a light into the shadowy world of unlisted assets. But It Is Fighting Back. As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products. (

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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 so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

HOFFMAN: It was called “Wednesday Journal” and they ran a bunch of weekly newspapers and a monthly parenting magazine called “Chicago Parent” That was my, truly my first job was running, I was their web editor. 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.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

You know, he went from the cover of Time Magazine to not being with us anymore. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. My first job was working for Professor Otto Eckstein, who was council Economic Advisors cover of Time Magazine. But he was a phenomenal person. And he had this game plan.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

She has worked at “Money Magazine”, “Forbes”, “Worth”, all over the place. You started as an assistant editor at Vogue Magazine in the late ’70s. RITHOLTZ: They just wanted to have a little, “Hey, let’s speak to women in our magazine.” MORGENSON: Jim Michaels, who was the editor of “Forbes” magazine.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? And in full transparency, I was a consultant on the Apple Watch, like, I helped them, and Jony Ive was on our second cover of our magazine. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

If you were interested in venture capital and you were on the East Coast, the only way you could learn anything was like fast money or I’m sorry, a fast company or wired magazine. He used to write at Smart Money Magazine. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHWARTZ: He had a magazine. The Professor was publishing for the magazine, and the Steinberg family is very involved in Wharton. And I’m like, “Well, if Bob Shiller is putting on the seatbelts, maybe he’s done the math, maybe I should be wearing a seatbelt in the back of the car.” RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 1966, Time magazine boldly predicted : “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop – because women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise, like to be able to change their minds.” . “History is on our side,” he said. “We will bury you.”

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2025

If he had done this in business, he’d be like on the cover of business magazines and giving lectures for money on the lecture circuit. He, like, he stopped doing math and science when he was like seven years old. He somehow figured out the problem and no one knew who he was. He didn’t advertise himself. You know, that.

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