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Math Problems

The Better Letter

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. In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. Thanks for reading. Yours, too.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. UConn won the national championship as a seven in 2014. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 That was about a one-in-five-million level of success. quintillion.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. It was just a struggle from day one, particularly in the regulatory environment that is the securities business between lawyers and compliance people.

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Braces vs. Invisalign: Did I Really Spend $16,000+ On My Kid’s Teeth?

Good Financial Cents

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! With proper care and compliance, though, Invisalign can give you a beautiful, straight smile. Keep in mind that many of the orthodontists we spoke to for this story stressed the need for compliance when it comes to Invisalign.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So you joined Global X in 2014. And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. What led you to them from Jefferies? BERRUGA: Great question.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine

The Big Picture

And that was his boss, Jeffrey Gundlock, founder of Double Line Capital, back in July, 2014. Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

So you can imagine that first check multiplied a little bit from 2014 or so. Um, case anybody that says anything, non-compliant, compliance tracks that also the watch list is just sort of fun. And I mentioned, you said it’s 2014. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math.

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