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What To Do When The Bitcoin Math Doesn't Math

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That number is from a Bankrate article I found on a Google search. I'd be curious to hear if anyone else does the same search and finds a different number of lost coins. First, is the math right based on my numbers? That roughly two million Bitcoin is actually more than 10% because approximately 3.8

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TikTokInvestors

The Big Picture

At least one person1 has noticed the risks to young consumers of social media: Since August 2020, @TikTokInvestors has been curating the most outrageous money-losing and dangerous videos culled from the “financial experts” at TikTok. Nestled in between lip-sync dancers and fashion influencers, financial fraud lurks on TikTok.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( History by numbers : Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? The Atlantic ). •

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2020 Pandemic Panic ?!? ( Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

The Big Picture

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out.

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The 60/40 Portfolio Is Alive and Well

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Let’s put some numbers to this to explain why. The math on the 40% slice is much cleaner. When that 5 year instrument was yielding 0.25% like it was in 2020 that meant that every 1% increase in interest rates was offset by just 0.25% of interest along the way. This is irrational/emotional storytelling.

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Trying To Learn From Risk Parity

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Kurtosis is a very fancy word where the higher the number, the greater the risk of an outlier result like 2022. A lower number is a mathematical representation of smoothing out the ride via fewer/smaller outlier results. The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged.