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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

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To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. But they made one super-sized mistake: they cheated with the numbers. ” A bit of quick math: 726,600/0.987 = 736,170 (starting point). 726,600 – 736,170 = -9,570.

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. What does the endless stream of news, social media, TikToks, Tweets, magazines, and television do to our ability to make good decisions?

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10 Monday AM Reads

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But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. Quanta Magazine ) • Why More Americans Are Using Fake License Plates and Getting Away : With It The old system of traffic control is breaking down. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money. I’m a sore loser,” he said. “I I don’t like to lose.”

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

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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. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number two is travel.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

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00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. The first big article, I think it was Fortune Magazine, Bethany McLean took a year for the stock to collapse a full year.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

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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. Like that solves like a number of issues. We’d like to do that for crypto?

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