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Saturday links: hospitality and sophistication

Abnormal Returns

(apnews.com) Travel There is a growing number of hotel brands. popsci.com) Science Google DeepMind solved a previously unsolvable math problem. npr.org) Don't let your past accomplishments bring you down in the present. slate.com) Chronic fatigue A better estimate of the number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome in the U.S.

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Know Thyself

Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

Lack of Understanding of the Numbers – when presented with the outcome of financial calculators, many of us consider whatever calculations were done in the background to be tantamount to magic. There’s no shame in admitting that factor – for a lot of us, math can be very tough.

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#FA Success Ep 325: Building Success In The Financial Advice Business From A Financially Challenged Upbringing, With Brenda Hiscock

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Brenda, though, is how she not only came to the financial services industry without any financial background, but did so despite a very financially challenging upbringing, and while navigating challenges of homelessness, bankruptcy, and alcoholism in her 20s, through which she not only persevered and rose through the ranks as a (..)

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Math Problems

The Better Letter

Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the bewildered point of view of two of the Bard’s bit players, the comically indistinguishable nobodies who become headliners in Stoppard’s brilliant play. The maths are exactly the same. Thanks for reading.

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How Getting Women Into Financial Planning Can Benefit Everyone

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

CFP Board certificant data makes one thing clear: “the issue of the low number of women CFP® professionals is primarily a problem of attraction, and not one of retention. The first being an increase in the number of women actually filling those professional roles, which I previously discussed.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

The Big Picture

emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. Which institutions, banks, VCs have you presented this? It was obvious to a small number of analysts in this space that this was not viable. What other borrowing facilities have you investigated?

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Sinking Funds: Why You Need Them. How To Set Up Yours!

Clever Girl Finance

You have no idea when they present themselves, and you have no control over the amount of money they demand from you. Divide the amount needed by the number of months. It also gives you the math formula to find the information you need if you prefer. What number of sinking funds? Omni calculator. MyMathTables calculator.