The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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?

Math

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. Let’s do math again! Nuclear medicine technologists $32.91 . $30 an Hour Is How Much a Year? Food scientists $30.95

Budgeting

The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. Gregg Nigl, a neuropsychologist from Columbus, Ohio, has come closest so far to a perfect performance. quintillion.

Numbers

Good Financial Cents

MARCH 15, 2023

Receptionist salaries are competitive compared to other customer service positions, especially in specific industries like medicine and law. You must also possess solid math and cash-handling skills and be able to multitask.

Communication

The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

Math

Abnormal Returns

MARCH 2, 2024

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Medicine

Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. As a customer, you pay for a monthly subscription (somewhere around $100), and in exchange you get unlimited access to super elite, personalized medicine for the vast majority of your medical needs. It’s simpler, cheaper and more flexible.

Insurance

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. Now HBS I think is 52 or 53 percent.

Recruitment

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? Medicine, law, pretty much wherever you look, United States has its own history, with some of its dark pockets. But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with. SHAW: Well, it’s pure geometry. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Recruitment

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Recently, more recently, a company in Chicago called Tempus, it got a big data precision medicine to help people who are diagnosed with cancer. The math never seems to work out. RITHOLTZ: I love them. I just flew out JFK. They’re the best. CASE: Yeah. We see it every time, some billionaires’ stadium gets paid for by taxpayers.

Startup

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. BROWDER: So that Putin has to diverge the anger that Russian people have for — that you can’t get a doctor to prescribe medicine. How many do you have in your fleet?

Government

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case. MORGENSON: This is a $64 trillion question, Barry, and I would love for you to ask every State Attorney General, for instance, why haven’t you gone after for-profit medicine? We’re going to help you make more money.

Insurance

The Big Picture

APRIL 2, 2024

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. Am I getting right?

Healthcare

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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.” And he had written several articles about how that affected his feelings about medicine and the government, and all the rest. And — SIEGEL: He’s very cautious.

Numbers

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. Like you’re running a race and you pass the person on second place, what place you’re in.

Numbers

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I mean, the pandemic brought that if, if you didn’t know that before the pandemic, you sure found out about it when we ran out of, you know, everything medicine, right? I do the math. But we know that every time there’s a shock to the system, we run outta stuff. I mean, that’s the title of my book.

Manufacturing