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.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. If it can generate that sort of total return which is yet to be proven, and if, I say if, it delivers that sort of number with less volatility than the broad market then its attractiveness improves.

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Midstream Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We all remember the great Google PANDA algorithm update of 2011… and the chaos that unfolded in the immediate aftermath. As I begin to hear more and more about Google’s algorithm update in early October, naturally I was worried that we may be in for a repeat of 2011. The BERT Algorithm Update: Breaking Things Down.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. Five 11-seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, and UCLA in 2021. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ). quintillion. trillion.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As I write this TBL, the S&P 500 is getting crushed and (using very rough numbers) is down 18 percent year-to-date. Based upon last week’s TBL , those hedge fund numbers sound high. Using very rough long-term return numbers (9.5% The Dow is down 8.5 The Nasdaq is down a dreadful 31 percent. I’ve had a few.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

But in the Mustachian Era (the years since 2011 when I started writing this blog ), there has only been one: the 2020 Covid Crash which only lasted about a month. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.).

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