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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. January retail surge: finding the signal in the noise Source: BofA Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

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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Going All In To Solve A Retirement Shortfall (Part 2)

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

These items for us include things like propane delivery (we could pay monthly), property tax and so on. Simple math is that this person needs to save $23/yr to come up with that additional $350,000. But simple math tells you that adding $5000/yr likely won't cut it. BTW, I mean that literally, it is all on a spreadsheet.

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$55K a Year Is How Much an Hour?

Good Financial Cents

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. For example, if you’re currently working in the retail industry, you could look for jobs in the banking or technology industries. Also, remember that $26.34

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. GMO has released last quarter their first retail product an ETFI love the symbol QLTY.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. It’s only later, or at least in the book you described it that way, it’s only later that it’s household brands and retailers and names we know. It’s really attracting a lot of retail dollars.

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

Clever Girl Finance

Self-employment tax. Another sinking fund example would be a fund you set up for your taxes. If you run your own profitable business, you can expect to owe money to the IRS in the form of self-employment tax. It also gives you the math formula to find the information you need if you prefer. Omni calculator.