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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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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles In hindsight, we can see that the value in 2014 $AAPL was real while the value in 2014 $IBM was fake. Investment finance math is sales math. By Richard Wiggins & Michael Edesess Unlike social security, many pensions suffer reverse compounding of purchasing power over time.

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Saving Capitalism 1 Stock at a Time

David Nelson

All companies face the challenges of a slowing economy, rising inflation and a born-again Fed that is determined to bring inflation under control even if it means pushing the economy over the edge. Do the Math! Do the math! S&P 500 vs the Communication Sector. Alphabet (GOOGL) Meta (META) and SNAP.

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Bracketology (2024 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 One bracket in 2017 was right through an incredible 39 games.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( His peak Elo rating of 2882, achieved twice in 2014 and 2019, is the highest in chess history. MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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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: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. We do have multi-asset strategy called balanced, which we launched in 2014 15.

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